Brocade Virtual ADX Installation and Deployment Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) - Manual (Page 11)

Brocade Virtual ADX Overview
● Brocade Virtual ADX features......................................................................................... 11
● Brocade Virtual ADX Interfaces...................................................................................... 11
● Typical deployment topologies........................................................................................12
● Tools supported on Virtual ADX......................................................................................12
The Brocade Virtual ADX Application Delivery Switch (Brocade Virtual ADX) is a software solution,
which enables the Brocade ServerIron ADX system software to run as a virtual machine on supported
hypervisor platforms. In this way, the Brocade Virtual ADX emulates a proprietary Brocade ServerIron
ADX system on platforms implemented with the x86 architecture.
The Brocade Virtual ADX is shipped as a Virtual Appliance for the VMware ESX, KVM and Xen
hypervisors. You can run the Virtual Appliance after requesting and procuring the hardware resources
from the respective host running the hypervisor.
You can deploy the Brocade Virtual ADX on a single subnet or multiple subnets. You can also deploy
the Brocade Virtual ADX as a stand-alone appliance or in a high availability pair.
Brocade Virtual ADX features
The Brocade Virtual ADX supports all of the essential features for ensuring the optimized delivery of
application traffic so that you can deliver Server Load Balancing as a service.
NOTE
For the latest list of supported features and the download instructions, refer to the release notes
relevant to your software release version.
Brocade Virtual ADX Interfaces
The Brocade Virtual ADX has four virtual NICs by default. The first virtual NIC assigned to the Brocade
Virtual ADX is used as the management interface to access the guest OS (Linux) and the management
functions of the Brocade Virtual ADX. The subsequent virtual NICs are used as data interfaces by the
Brocade Virtual ADX for Layer 4 and Layer 7 forwarding.
The management interface is named mgmt1 on the guest OS. You can configure this interface from the
guest OS. This interface is also visible to the Brocade Virtual ADX software with the same name. The
data interfaces are not visible to the guest OS because the Brocade Virtual ADX software controls these
interfaces.
NOTE
Guest OS, Linux and CentOS are used interchangeably in this document.
In the Brocade Virtual ADX software, the data interfaces are named as follows.
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