Synopses & Reviews
For years, IT leaders have been searching high and low for an IT service delivery model that can be leveraged on a single unified network. Private cloud computing is the solution to enable this model because it can consolidate diverse networks into a single virtual entity. As such, IT resources can be scaled up and down virtually to provision on-demand services without addition of new physical devices or entities. This creates huge cost savings and increases the ability to react and adjust to rapidly changing business climates. But how is this done?
Private Cloud Computing you how. By looking at building a Service-Oriented Infrastructure for cloud computing services it investigates how data center consolidation techniques, WAN optimization and virtualization enable new structures with increased productivity. The book also focuses on how WAN optimization can transorm the weakest component--the WAN--in a modern day center setup into the strongest together with virtualization as the responsive and dynamic IT service delivery model.
- First book to demonstrate a complete cloud architecture for enterprise networking by synthesizing Wide-Area Network (WAN) optimization, next-generation data centers, and virtualization in a user-friendly way, tying them together into a complete solution
- Real-world case studies and examples allow readers to easily apply the authors’ know-how to their existing enterprise environments
- Research firm IDC projects that cloud spending will reach $42b by 2012 and forecast cloud computing will capture 25% of IT spending growth by 2012.
Synopsis
Private cloud computing enables you to consolidate diverse enterprise systems into one that is cloud-based and can be accessed by end-users seamlessly, regardless of their location or changes in overall demand. Expert authors Steve Smoot and Nam K. Tan distill their years of networking experience to describe how to build enterprise networks to create a private cloud. With their techniques you'll create cost-saving designs and increase the flexibility of your enterprise, while maintaining the security and control of an internal network.
Private Cloud Computing offers a complete cloud architecture for enterprise networking by synthesizing WAN optimization, next-generation data centers, and virtualization in a network-friendly way, tying them together into a complete solution that can be progressively migrated to as time and resources permit.
- Describes next-generation data center architectures such as the virtual access-layer, the unified data center fabric and the "rack-and-roll" deployment model
- Provides an overview of cloud security and cloud management from the server virtualization perspective
- Presents real-world case studies, configuration and examples that allow you to easily apply practical know-how to your existing enterprise environment
- Offers effective private cloud computing solutions to simplify the costly and problematic challenge of enterprise networking and branch server consolidation
About the Author
Vice President of Technical Operations, Riverbed TechnologyLead Consulting Engineer, Riverbed Advanced Network Engineering team
Lead Consulting Engineer, Riverbed Advanced Network Engineering team
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Next-Generation Enterprise IT Trends
- Next-Generation Campuses and Data Centers
- Modern Day Remote Branches
- New Age Wide Area Networks (WANs)
- Private Cloud Computing Overview
Chapter 2 - The Data Center Evolution
- Server Load Balancing (SLB)
- Server Virtualization
- Next-Generation Switching Systems
- Many-to-One virtual switching system
- Virtual Switching System (VSS)
- Virtual Port Channel (vPC)
- One-to-many Virtual Device Contexts (VDC)
- Next-Generation Routing (L3) Virtualization
- Primer on Virtual Routing Contexts
- VRF-Lite End-to-End
- VRF-Lite and GRE
- VRF-Lite and 2547
- Consolidating and Unifying Ethernet and Fiber Channel (FC) fabrics with Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- Storage Virtualization
Chapter 3 - WANs In Vogue
- Next-Generation WAN models for interconnecting Metro Area Networks (MANs) between campuses and/or data centers:
- Next-Generation WAN models for interconnecting remote branch locations:
- DMVPN per VRF
- 2547oDMVPN
- 2547oL2TPv3
Chapter 4 - Remote Branch Consolidation and Virtualization
- WAN Optimization Introduction
- Application Streamlining Overview
- Virtual Desktops
- Remote Branch Network Virtualization
Chapter 5 - Session Interception Techniques
- Physical In-Path Interception
- WCCPv2 Inside Out
- Intercepting Flows with PBR
Chapter 6 - Advanced Session Interception Techniques
- Riverbed Interceptors
- Cisco ACE Load Balancer
- Session Interception in a Virtualized Environment
- Cloud Interception
Chapter 7 - IP Storage and SAN Extensions
- The Need to Extend SAN
- Native FC and DWDM
- iSCSI Primer
- FCIP Doppio
- Optimizing IP Storage Protocols
- Virtualized Storage
Chapter 8 - Private Cloud Computing: Framework for Next-Generation IP Services
- The Constraints of Public Cloud
- Private Cloud Architecture
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Next-Generation IP Services
- Storage as a service
- Application-X as a service (XaaS)
Chapter 9 - Case Studies