Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

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Goal of This Document

This document describes the architecture and design details for deploying and scaling an e-business application

using Cisco Intercloud Fabric

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for Business. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, you can extend your data

center or private cloud to the public cloud, allowing you to acquire the added capacity you need with no boundary

between your internal cloud and external clouds.

This document discusses deployment of an open-source reference application, osCommerce Online Merchant, in a

VMware-based internal data center. It also discusses how to scale this application transparently using resources in

Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Audience

The audience for this document includes sales engineers, field consultants, professional services staff, IT

managers, partner engineers, and customers who want to take advantage of an infrastructure that is designed to

scale on demand while maintaining consistent security and control policies.

Introduction

Industry trends indicate a growing movement among organizations to use hybrid cloud designs for acquiring

additional on-demand computing and storage resources, thereby eliminating the need to build for peak capacity

within their own data centers. Public clouds do not require the initial capital investments necessary to build out a
company’s own private data center, and a public cloud can better service a company’s need for elasticity by

providing essentially unlimited pay-as-you-grow expansion. Although hybrid cloud models are conceptually and

financially attractive, customers are often reluctant to place their applications in the public cloud, away from their

own premises. When an application or part of an application is deployed in the public cloud, companies want to

help ensure not only that the transition from private data center to hybrid model is operationally feasible, but also

that data access and control is carried over to this new architecture.

Cisco Intercloud Fabric facilitates secure hybrid cloud creation, giving customers the capability to scale their

applications securely and conveniently. Using the Cisco

solution, customers can access additional computing

power while extending their security, quality of service (QoS), and other control policies to the public cloud. Cisco

Intercloud Fabric also allows customers to place workloads across heterogeneous environments in multiple

provider clouds.

Some of the main benefits of the Cisco Intercloud Fabric solution are:

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Single point of management and control for virtual workloads across multiple provider clouds

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Choice of cloud providers and products, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and multiple intercloud fabric

provider

–based clouds

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Highly secure and scalable connectivity to extend private clouds to service provider clouds

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Capability to enforce consistent network and workload policies throughout the hybrid cloud

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Workload mobility to and from service provider clouds for virtual workloads

The solution architecture provides the following two product configurations to address enterprise and service

provider customers:

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers