Design of Private Cloud for Educational Sector Using Eucalyptus

Vol 1, Issue 1, 2012 International Journal of Advances in Computing and Information Researches Design of Private Cloud for Educational Sector using Eucalyptus Mrs. Bharati Ainapure Assistant Professor MIT College of Engg. Paud Road, Pune 0919881640118 [email protected] Mrs. Sukhada Bhingarkar Assistant Professor MIT College of Engg. Paud Road, Pune 0919860219248 [email protected] m Prof. Deven N. Shah Professor Terna College of Engg. & Technology Nerul, Mumbai 0919869385560 [email protected] ABSTRACT Cloud computing technology is driving a fundamental change in today‟s computing industry, enabling IT managers to treat infrastructure as a common substrate, on which they can provision services to users faster in a much more flexible and cost-effective way – without having to re-design or add to the underlying infrastructure[1]. Even, private cloud is also developing its root in educational sector. Many institutions today are facing certain issues because of extensive use of IT infrastructure. The laboratories at college are extensively used by students, teaching and non-teaching staff. As there is no centralized storage, these stakeholders use pendrives which creates virus problem. Some of the resources remain confined to one department e.g. certain software to which other depart ments can not gain a n access. In case of machine failure, a new machine needs to be setup that leads to increase in costs. Also, internet connectivity can be misused. This paper presents a case study of deployment of private cloud in technical institute which overcomes all these issues mentioned above. It uses Eucalyptus System‟s private cloud solution and builds private cloud based on open-source technologies and compatible with Amazon‟s cloud services. General Terms Cloud, PaaS, SaaS, Iaas, Resources, cloud computing. Keywords Private cloud, Virtual machine, instances, cloud controller, node controller, cluster controller. 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, “Cloud Computing” is most discussed term in business and academic environment. Because of the increasing popularity, many giant IT companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon interest Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing can be defined as providing resources and capabilities of Information Technology (e.g., applications, storages, communication, collaboration, infrastructure) via services offered by cloud computing providers. A Cloud Computing service has ubiquitous access through a Web browser or mobile device with APIs or special desktop applications developed by cloud service provider. Some benefits of Cl oud Computing can be listed: · Reduced implementation and maintenance costs · Increased mobility for a global workforce · Flexible and scalable infrastructures · Quick time to market · IT department transformation (focus on innovation vs. Maintenance and implementa tion) · “Greening” of the data center · Increased availability of high-performance applications to small/medium-sized businesses [2 ] In this paper, we discuss the “Cloud Computing” paradigm and its characteristics and present a case study of deployment of private cloud at college campus. This paper also discusses the benefits of Cloud Computing for technical institute. 1.1 What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing refers to the use of networked infrastructure software and capacity to provide resources to users in an on- demand environment. With cloud computing, information is permanently stored in centralized servers and cached temporarily on clients, which include desktop computers, notebooks, handhelds, and other devices[2,3]. According to the definition of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “Cloud Computing” is a model for enabling convenient; on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Computing is composed three service models that are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS),and Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), and it can be set up four deployment models that are Public, Private, Community, and Hybrid Cloud[2]. SaaS is a software delivery service that provides access to applications and data through internet connection anytime and anywhere. The software is accessible from various devices that can connect to internet through user interface such as a browser or API. PaaS provides a platform on cloud for application developers. This model of Cloud Computing delivers the development tools as a service over internet. Developers can build their applications on the development platform that run on providers‟ infrastruc ture and applications are delivered to users via the internet from the providers‟ servers. IaaS is the capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications]. These service models can be summarized as shown in figure 1[2,3].

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Design of Private Cloud for Educational Sector Using Eucalyptus