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Extending Private Data Center to Azure Cloud — Part 1
Introduction
Amazon’s AWS is the leader in public Cloud services bringing 17.5 billions USD revenues with 25% profit margin for Amazon in 2017. The AWS business is growing at a whopping rate of 49% in 2018. This is a very good testimonial that companies all over the world are embracing cloud technology in their IT strategy and deployment.
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud services had a late start than Amazon’s AWS but it is now in a very close 2nd position after Amazon’s AWS. Azure has the benefits that its parent, Microsoft is the owner of the Windows server software and it has well established relationships with IT departments for many years. Also, Azure has more data centers all over the world (i.e., lower network latency) than Amazon’s AWS and it supports nested virtualization that some other Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) cannot support. BTW, if you are planning to run any software or NFV appliances (e.g., GNS3) that itself runs on top of a hypervisor such as KVM on the cloud, you will need a CSP that supports nested virtualization.
This article discusses N-Tier application deployment in a private Data Center (DC) and its migration to Azure Cloud. The focus of this article is to highlight important network and system design issues such as scalability, security and redundancy for running N-Tier…
