This module is designed to provide the student with both a practical and theoretical understanding of thetechnical issues associated with designing, building and managing a private cloud infrastructure. Thetechnologies reviewed will include virtualisation, distributed computing, cloud storage, security within thecloud in addition to reviewing a number of existing cloud infrastructures.
CLOUD ARCHITECTURES
Cloud evolution - combining server, storage, network and compute environments; Virtualisation and Hypervisor types, Technologies within the cloud, Public, Private, Hybrid models/ classification. Virtualisation benefits, evolution characteristics, deployment & service models, multi-tenancy issues, cloud computing vendors and products, cloud services delivery.
BUILDING & DEPLOYING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IaaS)
Virtualization enabling technologies; Scalable server deployments. Transparency with platform. VSwitching, Automation of VM creation & deployment. Provisioning servers on demand, Tools and support for management and monitoring; Storage, Security, Redundancy and Resilience.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM STORAGE
Network Storage; SAN, NAS. Distributed data requirements. Hard Disk Redundancy; RAID configurations, mirroring & replication. iSCSI Clustering technology: initiators & targets. High Availability. VM Snapshots, Logical Data stores. VM resource management, resource redeployment, Failover recovery.
CLOUD MIGRATION and SECURITY
Multi-hosting physical issues, Security considerations; availability & disaster recovery strategies, Re-architecting applications for the cloud; Customer responsibilities and compliance. Service Level Agreements & financial implications, Comparing in-house facilities to the cloud.
GREEN DATA CENTRE CONSIDERATIONS
Environmental footprint and energy calculation, Regulation, Initiatives, Incentives. Power management measure, monitor and metrics within a data centre, energy market considerations.
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|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |
| Formal Examination | 50 |