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HIGHLIGHTS

Brocade Vyatta vRouter Cloud Bridging

•Security: Firewall, VPM

•VPN: IPSec and SSL, VPN

•Management: CLI, GUI, API

•Auto-Provisioning: Yes

•Open Management API: Yes, REST

•Hypervisor Readiness: VMware, Hyper-V, Xen/XenServer, Red Hat KVM

SECURE CLOUD BRIDGING

Simple and Secure VM Migration To and From the Cloud

One of the base assumptions of cloud computing is the use of the Internet to connect data centers regardless of where they are on the globe. Enterprise data center to cloud data centers—cloud data centers to each other—geographically dispersed, but seamlessly connected. Building on that assumption is the inherent promise of being able to move virtual machines between data centers without interrupting service. VM migration is key to the value of virtualization, and central to cloud’s value proposition of flexibility and dynamicism. However, moving VMs around the globe introduces the problem of networking continuity. VMs in Data Center 1 are moving packets around on that physical LAN and

accessing core services on it. When the VM is moved to Data Center 2, those links are broken and the VM blackholes.

To address this, there needs to be network transparency between different LANs, regardless of how physically dispersed they are. If geographic differences between the networks become transparent, then VMs can migrate freely and applications will function with no re-architecting needed.

The Brocade Vyatta vRouter combines Layer-2 bridging and IPSec/GRE or SSL Tunneling functionality to deliver a cloud bridging solution that allows physically separate networks to securely communicate with each other over the

NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION

Data Center

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Secure BridgedVPM Tunnel

Cloud

Figure 1. Secure Cloud Bridging.

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Internet as if they were on a single Ethernet network. This capability simplifies the migration of applications and physical servers between data centers, ensures continuity during a phased migration and enables the moving of virtual machines between physical servers on physically separate networks.

Cloud bridging creates an extension of the cloud or data center to enable capacity planning and simplify VM migration.

Benefits include:

1. The data center or primary cloud service becomes overloaded by demand spikes

2. Planning for disaster recovery and failure mitigation

3. Cloud strategies are based on phased migration of applications

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