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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 to provider cloud environments. Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers is intended for 

provider-

managed cloud environments, to allow the service provider’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 in both private and provider clouds. The Cisco 

Intercloud Fabric solution consists of the following components (Figure 1): 

● 

Cisco Intercloud Fabric virtual machine: This virtual machine contains the intercloud fabric director (ICFD) 

and Cisco Prime

™

 Network Services Controller (NSC). 

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric virtual supervisor module (VSM): This virtual machine is the management interface 

for the secure cloud extension component. 

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric secure cloud extension: This component contains the intercloud fabric extender 

(ICX) and intercloud fabric switch (ICS). 

 

Figure 1.    Cisco Intercloud Fabric Architecture 

 

 

Intercloud Fabric Director 

The intercloud fabric director is the single point of management and consumption for hybrid cloud solutions for end 

users as well as IT administrators. It offers a single console so that end users and IT administrators can provision 

workloads and associated policies. The director also exposes northbound APIs, which allows customers to 

programmatically manage their workloads in the hybrid cloud environment or integrate with other cloud 

management platforms.