Getting Started
A10 Thunder® on Dell Technologies is turnkey software and hardware solutions that provide flexibility and rapid deployment for multi-cloud infrastructures.
A10 Thunder deployed on Dell EMC PowerEdge R640XL and R740XL servers, as well as Dell EMC Virtual Edge 4600 Platform enables:
• Availability to maintain uptime for web applications, data center, and cloud infrastructure
• Acceleration to deliver better user experience, maintain SLAs, and optimize server utilization
• Security to enhance the existing security infrastructure and protect against the latest threats, while providing SSL/TLS offload for encrypted server traffic
Thunder MVP enables multiple services, including Thunder ADC, Thunder CGN, and Thunder SSLi and provides other functionalities as well:
• Improves operational agility and flexibility by running multiple independent instances on a single optimized and accelerated hardware platform. Each instance can run a different ACOS version and can be booted separately
• Delivers Thunder ADC instances, providing increased uptime, faster user experience and attack prevention for highly available, accelerated, and secure applications
• Integrates Thunder SSLi instances, providing security devices with decrypted SSL/TLS traffic visibility to stop data leaks and end-user attacks, for a foundation for Zero-Trust. A10 URL filtering and threat intelligence options can be added for enhanced user security.
NOTE: Spanning Tree protocol (STP) is not supported on Thunder MVP.
A10 Thunder on Dell technologies is a Single Service Platform (SSP) consisting of A10’s cloud-ready software and purpose-built Dell Technologies hardware. It is available for application delivery controller (ADC), carrier grade networking (CGN) or SSL Insight (SSLi).
• A10 Thunder ADC or CGN on Dell Technologies VEP4600
• A10 Thunder ADC, SSLi or CGN on Dell Technologies R640
• A10 Thunder ADC, SSLi or CGN on Dell Technologies R740
The A10 Thunder on Dell Technologies OEM Solution bundles Thunder ADC, CGN, and SSLi on Dell Technologies. The single-service platform, and Thunder MVP on Dell Technologies, a Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (with Hypervisor) is available in the following bundles:
1. Single Service Platform (Thunder ADC, CGN, SSLi on Dell)
• VEP4600 (10Gbps) brings a unique Edge of Network (EON) device to provide ADC, CGN, and SSL to small enterprises and Edge deployments
• R640 (60Gbps) and R740 (100Gbps) appliances provide enterprise-grade hardware with field replaceable parts instead of full units. Faster recovery time, fewer parts stocking, easier RMA
• Dedicated hardware acceleration with Cavium.
• Thunder ADC, CGN, SSLi runs on enterprise-grade Dell EMC Servers, with TLS hardware acceleration.
FIGURE 1:
Single Service Platform (Thunder ADC, CGN, SSLi on Dell)
2. Thunder Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (Thunder MVP)
• Consolidation of multiple vThunder instances to a single platform, for example, 4 Virtual ACOS instances on the R640 and 8 Virtual instances on the R740
• Enterprise-grade hardware with field replaceable parts instead of full units for faster recovery time, fewer parts stocking, and easier RMA
• Allows for flexible reboots, software versions, software features in one hardware
platform
• Dedicated hardware acceleration
• Hypervisor based multi-tenant Thunder ADC, CGN, and SSLi solution that runs on enterprise-grade Dell EMC servers with embedded security processors for TLS/SSL transactions.
FIGURE 2: Thunder Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (Thunder MVP)
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Additional Reference Information
For more information about the products, see the following guides:
• CGN guides
• IPv4-to-IPv6 Transition Solutions Guide
• Traffic Logging Guide for IPv6 Migration
• CLI reference guides
• Command Line Interface Reference for ADC
• Command Line Interface Reference for CGN
• SSLi guide
• SSL Insight (SSLi) Configuration Guide
• SLB guide
• Application Delivery Controller Guide
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