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International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Vol.3, No.4, April 2015 E-ISSN: 2321-9637

Integrated Advanced Information Management System Kevin Katkoria, Akshaykumar Math, Varun Joshi, Uday Rote kevin.katkoria@somaiya.edu,akshaykumar.m@somaiya.edu,varun.j@somaiya.edu,udayrote@somaiya.edu Abstract- Cloud is a location-independent resource, whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed and backed up remotely and made available to users over a network. Clouds provide processing power, which is made possible through distributed, large-scale computing systems, which use virtualization software. A Project Repository is a locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating of the intellectual output of an institution. A repository is mandatory nowadays for all premier institutions to save and maintain the data or information accumulated till date. The projects generated each year need large amount of memory to be stored and thereby it takes a substantial amount of time to deploy the projects stored in CD/DVD. Integrated Advanced Information Management System (IAIMS) aims at creating a Project Repository wherein projects are stored live (projects are stored along with the environment) and can be accessed as and when needed. The various challenges encountered during creating such a repository can be easily overcome by using virtualization in cloud. The integrated advantages of virtualization and cloud allow us to create a Project Repository with high efficiency, thereby minimizing the usage of resources that are consumed to create an efficient repository system.

Index Terms- Hypervisor, Vitualization, Cloud Storage 1. INTRODUCTION Integrated Advanced Information Management System is a Project Repository System. The modules are integrated together to form a generalized application system .These are the Storage Server, the Hypervisor and the monitoring server. Repository aims at providing a central storage for the projects undertaken and making it run live by providing the required environment.

Central Storage for the repository will be taken care of using a cloud storage server. Project Repository System will be using the concept of virtualization to provide the environment needed for different projects of different domains.

2. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION Existing systems for Project Repository Systems are all document oriented. They do not provide the scope for running the project live. This system aims at overcoming this shortcoming. This will help to run the projects live any time when required.

The main motivation for this system is to create a private cloud. The cloud is aimed at storing the all the files required for a project, Using a hypervisor the required environment which includes the operating system, software, and hardware will be provided for the project user.

This will help in accessing the projects with different environment from a single client system irrespective of what operating system is installed on the client system, anytime.

3. PROBLEM STATEMENT Project Repository aims at providing a long time storage for the projects being created by the students as well as staff. The main focus here is to provide the developers with the required environment for their projects as well as the hardware requirements The projects will be stored in private cloud created using Openfiler which provides block based storage. The required environment will be provided using a baremetal hypervisor ESXi. 4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE A. Cloud Storage[3] Cloud computing enables on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage and applications. Cloud storage refers to the delivery of storage resources to the consumers over the Internet. Private cloud storage is restricted to a particular organization and data security risks are less compared to the public cloud storage. Hence, private cloud storage is built by exploiting the commodity machines within the organization and the important data is stored in it. When the utilization of such private cloud storage increases, there will be an increase in the storage demand. It leads to the expansion of the cloud storage with additional storage nodes.

During such expansion, storage nodes in the cloud storage need to be balanced in terms of load.

In order to maintain the load across several storage nodes, the data need to be migrated across the storage nodes. This data migration

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International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Vol.3, No.4, April 2015 E-ISSN: 2321-9637 consumes more network bandwidth. The key idea behind this paper is to develop a dynamic load balancing algorithm to balance the load across the storage nodes during the expansion of private cloud storage.

Linux operating system; Ubuntu-based software can be run on the virtual machine.

In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the actual machine on which the virtualization takes place, and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words host and guest are used to distinguish the software that runs on the physical machine from the software that runs on the virtual machine. The software or firmware that creates a virtual machine on the host hardware is called a hypervisor or Virtual Machine Manager.

ESXi is a type-1 baremetal hypervisor. It provides the required environment for the virtual machines. It allows different virtual machines to be deployed in it.

Fig. 1 Architecture of a Cloud Storage Openfiler consolidates several open source technologies on the Linux 2.6 kernel base to deliver a comprehensive storage management solution that meets the needs of enterprise applications, users and administrators.

5. PROPOSED SYSTEM For the Project Repository system, all the projects would be stored on a cloud server, access to which will be provided via various other systems. On the client systems the environment required for running the deployed project live will be provided using virtualization through a hypervisor.

Openfiler will be used as the storage server. It will be used as a baremetal operating system. ESXi will be used as baremetal hypervisor. It will provide the required virtual environment.

Project teams can specify their requirements through the web portal. The administrator notifies the teams of their projetc, after successfully deploying the project related files. The project teams now can connect to their project’s console, which is being given a static ip-address, via the web portal.

Fig. 2 Architecture of Openfiler[5] B. Virtualization[2] Virtualization, in computing, refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources .Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. Software executed on these virtual machines is separated from the underlying hardware resources. For example, a computer that is running Microsoft Windows may host a virtual machine that looks like a computer with the Ubuntu

Fig. 3 Proposed Architecture 6. SUMMARY Integrated advanced information management system (IAIMS) consists Project Repository with Virtualization. The idea of providing users with virtual machines where they can create

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International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Vol.3, No.4, April 2015 E-ISSN: 2321-9637 their projects has been realized. The pilot system has be implemented on a larger scale where multiple project teams can work on their projects simultaneously and the servers must store all data on cloud. The concept of Repository with Virtualization will help solve many problems where students may need some arbitrary configurations. As this system will provide the users with a Virtual Machine wherein they can create a system with their desired configurations and by providing authentication the safety of their project is assured. This system can be scaled as a web based desktop sharing which will provide the option of sharing of virtual machine console through web browsers.

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[2] Semnanian, A.A. Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California State Univ ; Englert, B. ; Xiaolong Wu ” Virtualization technology and its effects on computer architecture” [3] Prabavathy B. ;Priya K., Babu C. ,Computin, Communications and Networking Technologies(ICCCNT). 2013 4th International Conference “A load balancing algorithm for cloud storage” [4] http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/ESXi_architect ure.pdf [5] http://www.openfiler.com/products/openfilerarchitecture

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