VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking

Overview

Just like physical data centers, Virtual Data Center platform products, such as VMware ESX, DRS, HA, and VMotion, are implemented to run applications. Yet these new platform technologies focus on virtualizing the infrastructure hosting the applications.
In order to fully take advantage of these new technologies, application delivery availability still needs to be the ultimate goal and focal point for these new data centers. Utilizing an Application Delivery Controller such as BIG-IP LTM for network and application
server virtualization provides the missing component to the Virtual Data Center: virtual network infrastructure.