[Cloud Computing]Patterns: Elastic Network Capacity

Elastic Network Capacity (Erl, Naserpour)

How can network bandwidth be allocated to align with actual usage requirements?

Problem

Network bandwidth is often fixed, resulting in performance bottlenecks, runtime exceptions and failure when bandwidth capacity is reached.

Solution

A system is established to dynamically increase or decrease the amount of network ports or network bandwidth in response to actual bandwidth usage.

Application

Cloud consumer network traffic is isolated and each cloud consumer is allocated its own network ports which are retrieved from and returned to a network pool, as per usage requirements.

Mechanisms

Automated Scaling Listener,  Cloud Usage Monitor,  Hypervisor,  Logical Network Perimeter,  Pay-Per-Use Monitor, Resource Replication,  Virtual Server

Compound Patterns

Burst In,  Burst Out to Private Cloud,  Burst Out to Public Cloud,  Cloud Authentication,  Elastic Environment, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),  Isolated Trust Boundary,  Multitenant Environment,  Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS),  Private Cloud,  Public Cloud,  Resilient Environment,  Resource Workload Management,  Secure Burst Out to Private Cloud/Public Cloud,  Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

NIST Reference Architecture Mapping

This pattern relates to the highlighted parts of the NIST reference architecture, as follows: