Flexible Licensing that Scales with Your Infrastructure
Scale A10 software and hardware capacity with consumption-based licensing
One Capacity Pool.
Greater Flexibility.
Unlike traditional licensing models tied to fixed deployments, FlexPool consumption-based licensing enables organizations to dynamically allocate and redistribute software capacity across virtual, bare metal, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
Key Challenges Customers are Facing
Rigid Licensing Models
Traditional licensing models are tied to fixed deployments, making it difficult to scale resources efficiently across changing application and infrastructure demands.
Capacity Management Complexity
Managing software capacity across physical appliances, virtual environments, bare metal, and cloud deployments can increase operational complexity and reduce infrastructure flexibility.
Infrastructure Overprovisioning
Organizations often provision infrastructure for peak demand, leading to underutilized resources, higher operational costs, and inefficient capacity planning.
Simplify How You Scale Capacity
Flexible Capacity Allocation
Dynamically allocate and redistribute capacity. Support flexible instance sizing across environments. Scale services based on changing demands. Improve utilization across shared capacity pools.
Operational Efficiency
Support capacity portability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Reduce unnecessary overprovisioning. Scale pool capacity as infrastructure grows. Maximize infrastructure and licensing investments.
Cost Control
Align capacity consumption with business needs. Reduce unused or stranded licensing capacity. Simplify budgeting across distributed environments. Support more predictable infrastructure spending.
Modernize Resource Utilization in Hybrid Environments
A10 FlexPool helps organizations simplify how software capacity is managed across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with scalable consumption-based licensing designed for evolving infrastructure and application demands.
Scalable shared capacity model that helps organizations simplify
CAPACITY POOL
- 10G, 20G, 50G, 100G, 150G, 270G, custom
- Shared floating capacity pool
SUBSCRIPTION
- 3-year and 5-year subscription options with co-term capabilities
- Enterprise License Agreement (ELA)
ALL INCLUSIVE
- Single consolidated shared license across deployments
- Aggregated capacity across hardware and software form factors
- Expandable pay-as-you-grow consumption model
Supports multiple deployment models
SINGLE POOL
- An enterprise-wide shared capacity pool with centralized capacity management across distributed environments.
MULTI-POOL
- Dedicated capacity pools for specific sites, business units, or environments.
INSTANCE POOL
- A shared pool for deploying fixed-size instances across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
FlexPool now integrates with A10 Control to provide centralized visibility and management
- Centralized visibility into licenses, devices, and capacity usage
- Dynamically allocate and manage FlexPool capacity levels
- Simplify device management, entitlement updates, and audit tracking
Solutions Supported by A10 FlexPool
FlexPool is a capacity pool license available for A10 software solutions, spanning virtual, bare metal and multi-cloud. FlexPool supports software services, including virtual and bare metal versions of:
A10 Control
A10 Control is the next generation of the centralized management and control platform for A10 solutions, consolidating existing A10 Harmony Controller and aGalaxy capabilities and more.
Thunder ADC
Thunder ADC delivers high-performance application delivery, advanced traffic management, and integrated security capabilities to help organizations optimize application availability, performance, and resiliency across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Thunder CFW
A consolidated network security platform for A10’s application and network infrastructure solutions. There are two packaging options: CFW-ADC for enterprise and CFW-CGN for service provider. The all-in-one CFW package is still available for previous generation platforms that don’t support modular licensing.
Supported Infrastructure Environments
FlexPool and vThunder® virtual appliances support a wide range of third-party environments from private to public cloud, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors. FlexPool supports private clouds using OpenStack, VMware vRO and public cloud offerings AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Additional Resources
FlexPool: Flexible Licensing for Pooled Capacity
