Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Provider White Paper

 

 

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Figure 3.    osCommerce Deployment Overview 

 

 

Application Deployment and Cisco Intercloud Fabric Architecture 

This section discusses the deployment requirements and the resulting design decisions for the application 

deployment. 

Design Requirements 

To deploy the e-business application in a hybrid cloud environment, the following design requirements were 

considered crucial for a successful deployment: 

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One or more application tiers should be partially or completely deployed in the public cloud. 

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Application should be accessed only from the enterprise data center, and any cloud virtual machines 

(deployed for increased capacity) must not be accessed directly from the public cloud. 

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Data and authentication services should stay in the private data center, but should be easily accessible from 

all the local and remote application virtual machines. 

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Any new virtual machine in the cloud should be deployed without the need to move large amounts of data 

across the cloud. 

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A server running in the private data center should be easy to migrate to the cloud and back if capacity in the 

private data center becomes a concern. 

 

These application demands can be translated to following technical requirements: 

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Capability to position appropriate virtual machine templates in the public cloud  

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Automatic virtual machine format conversion when migrating virtual machines to and from the cloud