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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 centerscloud data
centers to each othergeographically
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 clouds value proposition of
fexibility 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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10.x.x.x
Secure Bridged
VPM Tunnel
Cloud
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Secure Cloud Bridging.
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Internet as if they were on a single
Ethernet network. This capability simplifes
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.
Benefts 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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