Private Cloud Computing: Consolidation, Virtualization, and Service-Oriented Infrastructure

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 modelProvides an overview of cloud security and cloud management from the server virtualization perspectivePresents real-world case studies, configuration and examples that allow you to easily apply practical know-how to your existing enterprise environmentOffers effective private cloud computing solutions to simplify the costly and problematic challenge of enterprise networking and branch server consolidation

Chapter 1 – Next-Generation IT Trends

• Layers of Function: The Service-Oriented Infrastructure Framework
• Blocks of Function: The Cloud Modules
• Cloud Computing Characteristics
• Computing Taxonomy

• The Data Center Consolidation and Virtualization Modus Operandi
• Server Consolidation Drivers
• Server Virtualization
• Storage Virtualization
• Layer 2 Evolutions
• Unified Data Center Fabric

• Service Integration in the Data Center
• Infrastructure Segmentation
• The Next-Generation Enterprise WAN

• What is the WAN performance challenge?
• WAN Optimization Benefits
• Requirements for WAN Optimization Deployment
• Remote Office Virtualization Designs

• Selecting an Interception Mechanism
• The WCCP Dive
• In-path Deployment In-Brief
• PBR Deployment Overview

• WAN Optimization Requirements in the Cloud
• Interception at the VM Level
• Cloud Interception with VRF-Aware WCCP
• Cloud Interception with Non VRF-Aware WCCP
• Interception at the Services Aggregation Layer

• SAN Extension Overview
• Optical Networking Solutions
• SONET/SDH Services
• FCIP
• iSCSI
• Putting It All Together

• Cloud Security
• Unified Computing System
• Cloud Management
• Cloud IaaS: The Big Picture

• Virtual Access-Layer Design Study
• ERSPAN Design Study
• Unified Fabric Design Study
• Top-of-Rack Architecture Design Study
• Basic vPC Design Study
• SAN Extension Design Study
• Service-Oriented Infrastructure Design Study