Thesis no: MSEE-2016:36 Efficient Bare Metal Backup and Restore in OpenStack Based Cloud Infrastructure Design, Implementation and Testing of a Prototype Addishiwot Tadesse Faculty of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden I This thesis is submitted to the Faculty of Computing at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Electrical Engineering with Emphasis on Telecommunication Systems. The thesis is equivalent to 20 weeks of full time studies. The master thesis research was carried out at Ericsson AB in Göteborg, Sweden. Contact Information: Author: Addishiwot Tadesse E-mail:
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[email protected] Department of Communication Systems School of Computing BTH, Karlskrona Ericssson’s Manager Lars Samuelsson
[email protected] Göteborg, Sweden Ericssson’s Supervisors: Tony Borg Senior Packet Core Verification Engineer
[email protected] Göteborg, Sweden Asgrimur Olafsson Senior Packet Core Solution Engineer
[email protected] Göteborg, Sweden II Abstract Cloud computing has shown remarkable growth in recent years due to its concept of computing as a service, thereby, allowing users to offload the infrastructure management costs and tasks to a cloud provider. With the rapid development of these services, data has become the most crucial resource and hence companies start building disaster recovery (DR) systems that are more vital and essential to ensure the reliability and availability of data services in the event of IT infrastructure disasters. The occurrence of an unexpected calamity in a system leading to its disruption is a disaster.