Automation System of the University Information Services

Information technologies

Abstract

In companies, particularly higher educational institutions, providing a strong informationtechnological services is very essential. The article presents a hybrid cloud solution named as “NPUA Cloud Solutions” for implementing in the National Polytechnic University of Armenia. NPUA Cloud Solutions provides its users with a hybrid cloud space, where the system uses predefined algorithms, ongoing information on how the system works and the user’s inputted information through a web interface (CPU quantity, RAM volume, HDD volume, NIC quantity, security level, project type) to divide the data in the cloud automatically. During the data analysis, the system determines the project placement based on integral assessments using weight factors. The system provides tools to create a project, where the user can run any kind of server for his/her needs. The user can see how much of resources is used by any of the projects and based on these data modify any of them. Different types of networks have been separated using VLAN technology for security and network optimization reasons. ESXi 6.0 virtualization OS has been installed on the physical server, afterwards software-based firewall pfSense, Ceph object storage system have also been installed. Cloudstack has been used to provide hybrid cloud solutions.