Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

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Introduction

Industry trends indicate a growing movement among organizations to hybrid cloud designs. Organizations are

choosing these designs to acquire 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

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ents necessary to build out a company’s own private cloud. In addition, a public cloud can better absorb a

company’s need for elasticity by providing almost unlimited pay-as-you-grow expansion. However, although hybrid

cloud models are conceptually and financially very attractive, customers are often reluctant to place their

applications in the public cloud, away from their own premises. When an organization deploys an application or

part of an application in the public cloud, it wants to be sure that the transition from the private cloud to a hybrid

model is not only operationally feasible, but also that the company retains data access and control in the new

architecture.

Cisco Intercloud Fabric

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facilitates secure hybrid cloud creation, helping enable customers to scale applications

securely and conveniently. Using Cisco Intercloud Fabric, customers can access additional computing power while

extending their security and other control policies to the public cloud. Cisco Intercloud Fabric also allows customers

to place workloads across heterogeneous environments in multiple provider clouds.

Main Benefits

Cisco Intercloud Fabric offers these main benefits:

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

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A choice of cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, or 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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Enforcement of consistent network and workload policies throughout the hybrid cloud

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Workload mobility to and from service provider clouds for virtual workloads

Audience

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

partner engineers, and customers who want to take advantage of an infrastructure that is built to scale on demand

while maintaining consistent security and control policies.

Scope

This document describes the architecture and design details for deploying and scaling Microsoft SQL Server 2014

using Cisco Intercloud Fabric 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 additional capacity you need with no border

between your internal cloud and the external cloud. This document discusses a reference design using SQL Server

2014 in a VMware-based internal data center and describes how to scale this application by using resources in

Microsoft Azure.

Technology Use Case

You can use the solution described in this document to achieve cloud benefits without moving mission-critical on-

premises databases. You can incorporate the cloud for backup, reporting, and disaster recovery to take advantage

of the cloud without the risk entailed in moving your mission-critical on-premises databases.