Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

 

 

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business is intended for enterprise customers who want to be able to transparently 

extend their private clouds into provider cloud environments. Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers is intended for 

provider-managed cloud environments, to allow the service prov

ider’s enterprise customers to transparently extend 

their private cloud environments into the provider's cloud.  

This document focuses on an enterprise customer deployment model in an e-commerce environment and therefore 

discusses only Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business. 

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Overview  

Cisco Intercloud Fabric is deployed as a set of virtual machines (VMs) in both private and provider clouds. The 

solution consists of the following components, shown in Figure 1: 

● 

Intercloud Fabric Virtual Machine: This virtual machine contains the Intercloud Fabric Director (ICFD) 

feature and Cisco Prime

™

 Network Services Controller (NSC; abbreviated PNSC in figures in this 

document). 

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Secure Cloud Extension: This component contains the Intercloud Fabric Extender (ICX) and Intercloud 

Fabric Switch (ICS) features. 

 

Figure 1.    Cisco Intercloud Fabric Architecture 

 

 

Intercloud Fabric Director 

The Intercloud Fabric Director feature is the single point of management and consumption for hybrid cloud 

solutions for both end users and IT administrators. It offers a single console so that end users and IT administrators 

can provision workloads and associated policies. Intercloud Fabric Director also exposes northbound APIs that 

allows customers to programmatically manage their workloads in the hybrid cloud environment or integrate with 

other cloud management platforms.