Deployment Scenarios

Private On-premise

You can prepare a Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 and install CentreStack. In this scenario, Active Directory is typically at the same site and primary storage is from file server or NAS storage.

In this case, most of the time you are using CentreStack as a way to replace VPN to provide access to onsite file server from mobile devices and remote devices.

Note

Business Access use case - provide access to file server via CentreStack to mobile devices. When employees are in the office, they access the file server their normal way without noticing any difference, and while on the road or from remote location, they can use mobile and remote device to access file server network shares.

Private Off-Premise

Normally, a managed service provider (MSP) manages your IT services, such as hosted exchange servers, hosted file servers etc. You can ask the same managed service provider to install and manage the CentreStack for you in their data center.

Usually from this deployment scenario, if the file server is already in the same data center, typically it turned into the “Private On-premise” deployment.

If on the other hand, the file servers are away from the data center, this gets turned into “Business Continuity” use case, where the server agent can be installed on the local file server and connects the local file servers to the remote CentreStack server in the data center.

Virtual Private Cloud

In this deployment scenario, you would deploy the CentreStack solution in a virtual private cloud environment such as Amazon EC2. CentreStack is also available in the form of AMI image to facilitate creation of EC2 instances. In this deployment scenario, the typical primary storage connection is to the Amazon S3 storage. You can also setup CentreStack solution in an environment like HP Helion (OpenStack) Cloud, with a Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 connecting to OpenStack Swift storage.

Multi-Site Deployment

Please reference multi-site deployment.