During VMworld a lot of announcements were made, one that may not have been as well advertised is F5’s integration with NSX. Load balancing isn’t always looked at as a sexy technology and at the end of the day may not be because when it works it just works. But there are use cases for load balancing that go beyond a single web site with multiple servers hosting it or round robin load balancing VPN concentrators.
If this doesn’t look familiar you aren’t flying to the moon
Active\Active datacenters and workloads require some level of load balancing, and saying you are going to cloud burst without understanding how the DNS and network will respond or be routed is like saying you are going to fly to the moon with out understanding the premise of escape velocity.
