OpenStack in Enterprise
Antonov, Nikolay (2016)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016053010655
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016053010655
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The goal of the project is to set a private cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack and VMware, which can be replicated to the set of demilitarized commodity hardware and used for system engineering and testing. The project aims to explore features, benefits and challenges of different virtualization stacks and particularly network functions virtualization and their implementation in the commodity hardware.
The project has a specific set of requirements regarding software in use, especially regarding capabilities for a military-grade security, ease of system engineering, overall maturity and availability of an enterprise support. Therefore, the enterprise-grade OpenStack distributions will be considered, like VMware integrated OpenStack, Red Hat OpenStack and Mirantis Fuel.
Furthermore, the project will consider usage of connected software routers, including Juniper, Cisco and open-source SDN solutions.
The cloud infrastructure will be heterogeneous, with various Linux, Windows7/8.1/10 and Windows Server systems running sanitized copies of business-critical applications like Active Directory. The Linux systems will be based on Centos as a free alternative to enterprise-level Red Hat Linux systems and Windows systems will utilize MSDN licenses.
The result of this project will be an inhomogeneous private cloud infrastructure being implemented on the server, with a system which allows changes to the server-based infrastructure both on the OS and the network topology level to be rapidly pushed to the commodity LAN cluster. The project has to confirm the following things: 1) OpenStack can be utilized for the system engineering in an enterprise environment in a comfortable and, importantly, “batteries included” manner and 2) an OpenStack-based setup and/or various network topologies can be pushed to commodity hardware.
The project has a specific set of requirements regarding software in use, especially regarding capabilities for a military-grade security, ease of system engineering, overall maturity and availability of an enterprise support. Therefore, the enterprise-grade OpenStack distributions will be considered, like VMware integrated OpenStack, Red Hat OpenStack and Mirantis Fuel.
Furthermore, the project will consider usage of connected software routers, including Juniper, Cisco and open-source SDN solutions.
The cloud infrastructure will be heterogeneous, with various Linux, Windows7/8.1/10 and Windows Server systems running sanitized copies of business-critical applications like Active Directory. The Linux systems will be based on Centos as a free alternative to enterprise-level Red Hat Linux systems and Windows systems will utilize MSDN licenses.
The result of this project will be an inhomogeneous private cloud infrastructure being implemented on the server, with a system which allows changes to the server-based infrastructure both on the OS and the network topology level to be rapidly pushed to the commodity LAN cluster. The project has to confirm the following things: 1) OpenStack can be utilized for the system engineering in an enterprise environment in a comfortable and, importantly, “batteries included” manner and 2) an OpenStack-based setup and/or various network topologies can be pushed to commodity hardware.