System and method for a multi-tenant datacenter with layer 2 interconnection and cloud storage

A datacenter, utilizing Open System Interconnection (OSI) frame header tags to individually identify transmission data in Layer 2 Frames apart from Layer 3 packets, comprising:

• a plurality of client systems coupled to a first datacenter each client system having a set of infrastructure resources and a client defined networking configuration;
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• a first cloud computing environment established in the first datacenter, and coupled to the client systems at a protocol level for the transfer of frames at a protocol other than an Internet Protocol (IP), with a plurality of distinct OSI frame header tags individually identifying each of the plurality of client systems, such that at least two client systems are permitted to have overlapping network configurations.

A cloud system for client systems utilizing Open System Interconnection (OSI) frame header tags to discriminate transmission data in Layer 2 Frames apart from Layer 3 packets, comprising:

• A plurality of datacenters interconnected at OSI Layer 2, each datacenter having a plurality of client systems connected thereto, each client system having a set of infrastructure resources and a client defined networking configuration;
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• a cloud computing environment established in the first datacenter, and coupled to the client systems at a protocol level for the transfer of frames at a protocol other than an Internet Protocol (IP), with a plurality of distinct OSI frame header tags individually identifying each of the plurality of client systems, such that at least two client systems are permitted to have overlapping network configurations.

A method for providing a datacenter utilizing Open System Interconnection (OSI) frame header tags to discriminate transmission data in Layer 2 Frames apart from Layer 3 packets, comprising:

• establishing within at a first data center a first cloud computing environment;
• connecting a plurality of client systems to the first datacenter, each client system having a set of infrastructure resources and a client defined networking configuration, the client systems connected to the first datacenter at a protocol level for the transfer of frames at a protocol other than an Internet Protocol (IP), with a plurality of distinct OSI frame header tags individually identifying each of the plurality of client systems, the plurality of distinct OSI frame header tags permitting each client system to self-direct software defined networking.