Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business

Data Sheet Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business Combining the Benefits of Public and Private Clouds in a Hybrid Cloud Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business enables enterprises to create a seamless hybrid cloud by transparently extending their data centers or private clouds into public clouds and provider-hosted clouds. Using industry-leading Cisco networking capabilities, Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows enterprises to deploy a hybrid cloud that combines the benefits of public and private clouds. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, enterprises can have the agility and flexibility they need while retaining full security and control. Overview With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, customers can build secure hybrid clouds and extend their existing data center to public clouds on demand. Cisco Intercloud Fabric is a highly secure, open, and flexible solution that enables freedom in workload placement across private and public clouds in response to business needs. It helps ensure the same network security and access control policies in the public cloud as previously were enforced in the data center. Cisco Intercloud Fabric enables enterprises to connect on-premises data centers to multiple provider clouds and take advantage of elastic cloud capacity, lower costs, and fast access to resources. The benefits of Cisco Intercloud Fabric include: Freedom to place workloads across heterogeneous clouds with unified workload management Bidirectional workload mobility across clouds Choice of hypervisor and public cloud providers Centralized visibility across private and public cloud environments Consistent operational model with common network and security policies across private and public clouds Cisco Intercloud Fabric Figure 1 provides an overview of the Cisco Intercloud Fabric solution. Figure 1. Solution Overview: Cisco Intercloud Fabric 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 6

Self-service workload deployment: Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows end users to easily deploy workloads across various public clouds or migrate workloads across clouds. It offers a built-in administration and enduser portal as well as rich northbound APIs for automation. End-to-end security: Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides end-to-end cryptographic secure connectivity from private to public clouds and security within the public cloud for data in motion. Consistent networking capabilities: Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides Layer 2 network extension from private to public clouds, helping ensure application transparency. It includes integrated switching, routing, and virtual firewall and NAT capabilities. Bidirectional workload mobility: Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows workloads to be migrated from private to public clouds and back. It includes automatic image conversion to the desired cloud format, so virtual machines can be placed on or migrated to any cloud. Choice: Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides choice of cloud providers and hypervisors. Figure 2 shows the Cisco Intercloud Fabric architecture. Figure 2. Cisco Intercloud Fabric: Architectural Details Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director serves as the end-user and IT portal for provisioning and management of the public cloud extension. This single console provides visibility into virtual machines in private clouds along with complete lifecycle management for virtual machines running in public clouds. It is also used for managing cloud network services. Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides open APIs, which allow integration of third-party management tools. Cisco Intercloud Fabric Secure Cloud Extension provides a secure Layer 2 extension from the enterprise data center to the cloud. It includes Cisco Intercloud Fabric Extender virtual machines placed on the private cloud and Cisco Intercloud Fabric Switch virtual machines placed on the public cloud to provide secure connectivity using the standard datagram transport layer security mechanism. 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 2 of 6

Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business: System Requirements Table 1 lists the Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business system requirements. Table 1. System Requirements Requirement Host One host for hosting Cisco Intercloud Fabric components s 64-bit x86 (VT capable) 32 GB of RAM space 500 GB Network interface cards (NICs) 2 (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps) VMware ESXi Releases 5.1 and 5.5 Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director 8 GB 4 vs 100 GB Processor x86 Intel or AMD server with 64-bit processor Cisco Intercloud Fabric Extender Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director VSM Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director with Cisco Prime NSC 2 GB 2 vs 4 GB 2 GB 1 v 3 GB 4 s 8 GB 220 GB Cisco Intercloud Fabric Deployment on Provider Clouds: System Requirements Table 2 lists the Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers system requirements. Table 2. System Requirements Requirements Cisco Intercloud Fabric Switch For AWS: c3.2xlarge - 2 vs 15 GB For Microsoft Azure: Large A3 4 vs 7 GB 20 GB 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 3 of 6

Requirements For All Other Providers Cisco Intercloud Fabric Virtual Firewall For AWS Cisco Intercloud Fabric Virtual Router For AWS 4 vs 4 GB 20 GB m1.medium or m3.medium 1 v 3.75 GB c3.xlarge 4 vs 7.5 GB System Scale Table 3 summarizes system scalability. Table 3. System Scalability VMs per Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director 1000 VMs per secure extension 100 VLANS per Cisco Intercloud Fabric cloud 16 VMs per Cisco Intercloud Fabric cloud 100 vnics per Cisco Intercloud Fabric cloud 256 Client OS Support Table 4 lists the client operating systems supported. Table 4. Client OS Support CentOS 6.3 (64-bit) RHEL 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 (32- and 64-bit) Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Ordering Information Table 5 provides ordering information for Cisco Intercloud Fabric. Table 5. Ordering Information Product Part Number Quantity Hybrid Ports Main Part Number ICFB-GENC= - - Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds ICFB-GENC-10PK-1YR= 10 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 10 hybrid port starter pack ICFB-GENC-50-1YR= 11-50 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 11-50 ICFB-GENC-100-1YR= 51-100 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 51-100 ICFB-GENC-500-1YR= 101-500 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 101-500 hybrid ports 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 4 of 6

Product Part Number Quantity Hybrid Ports ICFB-GENC-1000-1YR= 501-1000 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 500+ ICFB-GENC-1000+1YR= 1000+ Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 1 year 1000+ ICFB-GENC-10PK-3YR= 10 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 10 hybrid port starter pack ICFB-GENC-50-3YR= 11-50 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 11-50 ICFB-GENC-100-3YR= 51-100 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 51-100 ICFB-GENC-500-3YR= 101-500 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 101-500 hybrid ports ICFB-GENC-1000-3YR= 501-1000 Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 500+ ICFB-GENC-1000+3YR= 1000+ Intercloud Fabric For Business - General clouds 3 year 1000+ ICFB-CPC= - - Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF clouds ICFB-CPC-10PK-1YR= 10 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 10 ICFB-CPC-50-1YR= 11-50 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 11-50 ICFB-CPC-100-1YR= 51-100 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 51-100 ICFB-CPC-500-1YR= 101-500 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 101-500 ICFB-CPC-1000-1YR= 501-1000 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 501-1000 ICFB-CPC-1000+1YR= 1000+ Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 1 year 1000+ ICFB-CPC-10PK-3 YR= 10 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 10 ICFB-CPC-50-3YR= 11-50 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 11-50 ICFB-CPC-100-3YR= 51-100 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 51-100 ICFB-CPC-500-3YR= 101-500 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 101-500 ICFB-CPC-1000-3YR= 501-1000 Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 501-1000 ICFB-CPC-1000+3YR= 1000+ Intercloud Fabric For Business - Cisco ICF Provider clouds 3 year 1000+ For More Information For more information about the Cisco Intercloud Fabric, including software downloads, release notes, and technical documentation, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/intercloudfabric. 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 5 of 6