Radware's ADC-VX™
The Agility of Virtual; The Predictability of Physical

ADC-VX^™ is the industry's first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Hypervisor that runs multiple virtual ADC instances on a dedicated ADC hardware, Radware's OnDemand Switch platforms. ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to enable organizations to consolidate their ADC hardware devices without compromising resiliency or performance predictability of their ADC services — resulting in significant savings of hardware costs and operational expenses. Additionally, ADC-VX provides the agility and the simplicity that is required in the dynamic, ever-changing virtualized data center, driving faster deployment of new services and better alignment of ADC services with frequent configuration changes.

Radware's ADC-VX is an ideal solution for large enterprises, hosting and service providers as well as cloud providers that aspire to achieve significant cost savings by consolidating multiple dedicated ADC devices into a single, cost-effective consolidated ADC device.

What is ADC-VX?

ADC-VX is a specialized hypervisor for ADC services built on a unique architecture that virtualizes Radware's OnDemand Switch platform resources ─ including CPU, Memory, Network and Acceleration resources. This specialized hypervisor runs fully functional virtual ADC instances each of which delivers ADC functionality just like a dedicated physical ADC device. Each virtual ADC instance contains a complete and separated environment of resources, configurations and management.

With Radware's ADC-VX it's easy to amend the operations of the virtual ADC instances to quickly align the ADC services with changing business needs.

Resilience & Complete Isolation

Radware's ADC-VX is designed from the ground up to ensure complete fault isolation, network isolation and management isolation between neighboring virtual ADC instances. By providing this unique isolation architecture that is similar to dedicated physical ADC devices, Radware ADC-VX eliminates the risks involved with consolidation and physical to virtual (P2V) migration. In addition, the entire network layer is virtualized and private – including interfaces, VLANs, ARP and routing tables, which ensures that traffic is routed through isolated paths for maximum privacy.

Predictable Performance & SLA Guaranty

A unique resource guarantee mechanism ensures that each virtual ADC instance is allocated dedicated resources for its operation. This way, every virtual instance can utilize only those resources for which it was specifically allocated, resulting in predictable performance and service level agreement (SLA) guaranty for each instance. This approach completely eliminates the risks of resource starvation even under the most challenging scenarios. For example, a flash crowd event on one of the virtual instances will not affect the performance of other instances.

Full Business Agility

Instant provisioning, decommissioning and resource reallocation of virtual instances running on top of the ADC-VX drives business agility by significantly shortening the deployment time of new applications and services in the virtualized data center. Radware's ADC-VX makes it easy to reallocate resources and distribute them across virtual ADC instances, adjusting their performance and functionality to meet changing business needs.

Simple to Operate & Manage

ADC-VX Hypervisor assigns physical resources such as CPU, memory, network and acceleration resources to capacity units, which are allocated to the virtual ADC instances by a simplified resource abstraction mechanism. This automatic process eliminates complicated calculation and reduces human errors. In addition, the centralized management system and dashboard provide a real-time view of the virtual instances' health and resource utilization, resulting in a scalable solution that is simple to operate and manage.