Chapter 11. Multitenant networking: IaaS environment

In the previous section, we examined how Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can be used to implement a solution that provides multitenancy, the ability of a cloud infrastructure to support virtual machine workloads of multiple tenants in a secure fashion. While enterprise customers usually want to build private clouds and transition to an IT-as-a-service operational mode, hosting providers want to build public clouds and offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to their customers.

In the IaaS model for cloud computing, the service provides servers (typically virtualized), storage, and networks to the customer. The customer then owns the virtual servers and is responsible for maintaining them ...

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