Traditional Data Center Infrastructure

The Complex Reality of Pre-Cloud Architecture
INTERNET FIREWALL DMZ NETWORK - VLAN 100 F5 Load Balancer (Primary) F5 Load Balancer (Backup) APPLICATION NETWORK - VLAN 200 WEB Apache RHEL APP CLUSTER Python/Spring VMware VMs MESSAGE Q RabbitMQ Clustered SEARCH OpenSearch 3 Nodes AUTH/CACHE Keycloak HA Pair STORAGE ARRAY SAN: NetApp 10TB NAS: EMC 50TB DATABASE NETWORK - VLAN 300 POSTGRESQL CLUSTER Primary + Standby 64GB RAM / 16 CPU MONGODB REPLICA SET 3 Node Cluster 128GB RAM / 24 CPU BACKUP SYSTEM Veeam + Tape 500TB LTO-8 MANAGEMENT NETWORK - VLAN 400 NAGIOS CACTI/MRTG SYSLOG VCENTER ANSIBLE JUMP BOX Active Warning Critical 24/7 MONITORING MANUAL SCALING PHYSICAL SERVERS
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Maintenance

Old: Manual patching, scheduled downtime
New: Automated updates, zero downtime
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Scaling

Old: Purchase hardware, weeks to deploy
New: Auto-scaling in seconds
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Cost Model

Old: Large CAPEX, fixed capacity
New: Pay-as-you-go, elastic resources
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Disaster Recovery

Old: Separate DR site, manual failover
New: Multi-region, automatic failover