Pulse Connect Secure on Alibaba Cloud

Prerequisites and System Requirements on Alibaba Cloud

To deploy the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance on Alibaba Cloud, you need the following:

•An Alibaba Cloud account

•Access to the Alibaba Cloud portal (https://account.alibabacloud.com/login/login.htm)*

•Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance Image (file)

•Alibaba Cloud Terraform template

•Pulse Connect Secure (PSA-V) licenses

•Site-to-Site VPN between Alibaba Cloud and the corporate network (optional)

This is needed only if the Pulse Connect Secure users need to access corporate resources

•Pulse Connect Secure configuration in XML format (optional)

Deploying Pulse Connect Secure on Alibaba Cloud

As depicted in the below diagram, a remote user can use Pulse Connect Secure to securely access cloud resources as well as corporate resources. To access corporate resources, the Pulse Connect Secure administrator needs to ensure that site-to-site VPN is already established between Alibaba Cloud and the corporate network.

The following figure depicts Pulse Connect Secure on Alibaba Cloud:

Supported Platform Systems

This section helps you in choosing the instance types that should be deployed with Pulse Connect Secure for Alibaba Cloud.

•PSA7000v is equivalent to ecs.g6.2xlarge in Beijing region.

Model	Region	vCPU	Memory (GB)
ecs.g6.2xlarge	Beijing	8	32