Chapter 10. Multitenant networking: Single cluster

Multitenancy is the ability of a cloud infrastructure to support virtual machine workloads of multiple tenants in a secure fashion. With multitenancy, all of the workloads run on the same infrastructure while being isolated from each other. The multiple workloads of each tenant can interconnect with each other and be managed remotely, but they do not interconnect with the workloads of other tenants or be remotely managed by them.

Multitenancy is a key capability built into the Hyper-V role of Windows Server 2012 and is a key ingredient for building cloud computing platforms. Multitenancy can be implemented using Network Virtualization, which provides virtual networks to virtual machines similar ...

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