Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

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What You Will Learn

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 additional capacity you need with no border

between your internal cloud and the external cloud. This document discusses deployment of an open-source

reference application, osCommerce, in a VMware-based internal data center and describes how to scale this

application by using resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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.

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
investments necessary to build out a company’s own private data center. In addition, a public cloud can better
absorb a company’s need for elasticity by providing almost unlimited pay-as-you-grow expansion. 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 data center 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 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.

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

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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 AWS and Microsoft Azure, or multiple intercloud fabric provider

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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

Cisco Intercloud Fabric 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