As enterprises transition from traditional dedicated server deployments to virtualized environments that leverage public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud services, the cloud computing networks they are building must provide security and segregation of sensitive data and applications. Network architects may find a solution in building a multi-tenant network.

Multi-tenant networks, in a nutshell, are data center networks that are broken up and logically divided into smaller, isolated networks. Like tenants in an apartment complex, multi-tenant networks...