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Cloud Balancing (Erl, Naserpour)

The Cloud Balancing compound pattern establishes a specialized cloud architecture in which IT resources can be load-balanced across multiple clouds. It is comprised of the following patterns:
Required (Core)
- Automated Administration
- Elastic Resource Capacity
- Hypervisor Clustering
- Load Balanced Virtual Server Instances
- Micro Scatter-Gather
- Multi-Container Isolation Control
- Persistent Virtual Network Configuration
- Rapid Provisioning
- Redundant Physical Connection for Virtual Servers
- Redundant Storage
- Rich Container
- Service Load Balancing
- Storage Workload Management
- Workload Distribution
Optional (Extension)
This pattern is covered in CCP Module 5: Advanced Cloud Architecture.
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This cloud computing mechanism is covered in:
Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Thomas Erl, Zaigham Mahmood,
Ricardo Puttini
(ISBN: 9780133387520, Hardcover, 260+ Illustrations, 528 pages)
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