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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN KOSOVO MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions “Submitted as a Capstone Project Report in partial fulfillment of a Master of Science degree in Professional Studies at American University in Kosovo” By Gani ZOGAJ November, 2012 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I would like to thank God for giving me health for completing my Master’s Degree studies. I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor of capstone proposal, Bryan, for his support and for giving me suggestions and recommendations throughout the Capstone Project work. Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Shkendije, and my lovely daughters, Elisa and Erona, who I love so much, for their understanding while I was preparing the Capstone Project and I couldn’t spend enough time with them. 2 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions Table of Contents Figures and Tables………………………………………………….……………….……….……5 List of Acronyms………………………………………………………………....………….……6 Executive Summary……………………………………………………..………………...………8 Chapter 1…………………………………………………………………………...…………….11 1. Virtual Systems Globally……………………………………………………………..……….11 1.1 Virtualization Approaches……………………………………………….…….…..……..….11 1.2 Scope of virtualization deployment…………………………………..…….….………..…...12 1.3 Global Virtualization Services……………………..………………………..………..…...…13 1.3.1 State of the Storage Virtualization Market………………………………………….……..15 Chapter 2 …………………………………………………………………….……………..……17 2. Information and Communication Technology in Kosovo Institutions……………..……...….17 2.1 Introduction……………………………………………………….……………………...…..17 2.2 Current Situation in MPA........................................................................................................18 2.2.1 ICT Regulation Law…..………………………………….…………………………..…....19 2.2.2 IT Systems Administered by DeGAP…………..…………………………………….........19 2.2.3 Network Sector Administered by DeGAP/MPA………...…………….……….…….……22 2.2.4 Web hosting………………………………………………………………………………..24 2.2.5 Security………………………………………………………………….…………..……..25 2.3 Current Situation in MF...........................................................................................................26 2.3.1 ICT Regulation Law…………………………………………………..………………..….27 2.3.2 IT systems Administered by Ministry of Finance……………………………………...…..27 2.3.3 The IT Systems Administered by Kosovo Tax Administration………………….…...…..27 2.3.4 IT Systems Administered by Customs of Kosovo………………………………………....28 2.4 Current Situation in other institutions......................................................................................28 2.5 Summary of ICT Systems in Institutions of Kosovo…………………………………….…..30 Chapter 3 …………………………………………………………………………….……..……32 3. Integration of ICT Systems……………………...………………………………………….....32 3.1 National Data Center……………………………………………………………………..…..33 3.1.1 Project purpose of NDC………………………………………………………..…..…..…..35 3 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions 3.2 Disaster Recovery Center……………………….………………………………………..….38 Chapter 4 ………………………………………………………………………………….….…39 4.Virtualization…………………..………………………………………….……………….…..39 4.1 Virtualization Overview………………………………………………………..………..…..39 4.2 Virtualization of Servers…………………………………….…………………………….…40 4.3 Virtualization benefits…………………..……………..……………………….………...…..41 4.4 Virtualization product choices…………...……………………………………………..……47 4.5 Virtualization in Kosovo Institutions……………………………………………..…….……48 Chapter 5 ……………………………………………………………………………………...…50 5. Optimizing of Resources………………………………………………………….……...……50 5.1 Optimize resource use…………………………………………….…………………….…....50 5.2 Consolidation of Information Technology in Institutions of Kosovo………………….….....51 5.3 Centralizing of storage…………………………………………………….………….…..….52 5.4 Flexible storage architecture………………………………………………………..…..……53 5.5 Optimization resource use through virtualization and shared Infrastructure Data storage………………………………………….………………………........55 Chapter 6…………………………………………………………………….……………..….…57 6. Financial savings……………………………………………………………………….….…..57 6.1 Financial savings of budget of Kosovo using virtualization of servers……………….....…..57 6.2 Servers and energy consumption…………………………………………….………………57 Chapter 7…………………………………………………………………………..…..…………61 7. Final Discussion and Recommendations…………………………………………………..….61 7.1 Discussion and Summary…………………………………………………………….…..…..61 7.2 Recommendations………………………………………………………………….……...…65 8. List of references…………………………………………………………………...………….67 Appendix 1…………………………………………………………….…………..……………..68 Appendix 2………………………………………………………………………….…….....…...71 4 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions Figures and Tables Table 1 Financial savings statistics………………………………………………………………..8 Figure 2: Cost savings using virtualization………………………………………………………..9 Figure 1.1 Virtualization solutions across all three continents……………………….......….…..15 Figure 1.2 State of the Storage Virtualization Market Report in USA……………………....…..16 Figure 1.3 State of the Storage Virtualization Market Report in Europe….…………………….16 Figure 2.1 The replication sites………………………………………………..…………………20 Table 2.2 IT devices administered by DeGAP………………………………………….…….....21 Figure 2.3 The view of the server room……………………...………………………………......22 Figure 2.4: The view of the network around Kosovo……………………………………………23 Figure 2.5 The statistics for web hosting for Kosovo Institutions in percent………..…..............25 Figure 2.6 The ICT departments Established within Kosovo Institutions………………….……31 Figure 3.1 The view of Data Center design…………………………………….….……..…...…34 Figure 3.2 The view of sites……………………………………………...……………….…...…38 Figure 4.1 The Hardware Infrastructure before virtualization……………………………...……43 Figure 4.2 The Virtualization Architectures after Hardware Infrastructure Virtualize……….…43 Table 4.3 Top virtualization product deployments…………………………………………..…..47 Figure 4.4 Virtualization of servers in MPA……………………………….................................48 Figure 4.5 VMs and PMs in MPA……………..……………………………………………...…48 Figure 4.6 VMs and PMs in IK…………………………………………………..………...….…49 Figure 4.7 Virtualization of servers in IK………………………………………….………....….49 Figure 5.1 Optimizing of resources of servers which are virtualized………………….…..….…50 Figure 5.2 Transition from application-based silos to the cloud…………………………...……52 Figure 5.3 Flexible storage architecture…………………………………………...……...…..…54 Figure 5.4 Virtual infrastructure with virtual storage…………………………………….…..….56 Table 6.1 Financial savings statistics……………………………………………………......57&65 Figure 6.2 Processor utilization………………………………………………...……………..…58 Figure 6.3 Performance to power ratio…………………………………………….………...…..59 Figure 6.4 Incremental power consumption……………………………………….………….....60 Figure 7.1 Virtual infrastructure with virtual storage…………………………………..………..63 Figure 7.2 Optimizing of resources of servers which are virtualized………………………...….64 5 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions List of Acronyms The following is a list of acronyms and their meanings used throughout the text. Acronym Complete Title IK Institutions of Kosovo MPA Ministry of Public Administration DeGAP Department for electronic Governance and Administrative Processes ICT Information and Communication Technology RKS Republic of Kosovo IT Information Technology TIA Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard IDC International Data Corporation NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service LAN Local Area network NDC National Data Center VMware Company providing virtualization software CIO Chief Information Officer VMs Virtual Machines NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone HP Hewlett Packard IBM International Business Machines DIT Department of Technology and Informatics SAN Storage Area network ESXi enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware USA United States of America CD Compact Disk PMs Physical Machines 6 Virtualization and Shared Infrastructure Data Storage for IT in Kosovo institutions VMs Virtual Machines NAS Network Attached Storage UK United Kingdom UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply KIHSE Kosovo Institutions which have hosted web page somewhere else KIDeGAP Kosovo Institutions which have hosted web page in DeGAP LIHDeGAP Local Institutions which have hosted web page in DeGAP CIHDeGAP Central Institutions which have hosted web page in DeGAP MED Ministry of Economic Development KCA Kosovo Cadastral Agency KP Kosovo Police MF Ministry of Finance MIA Ministry of Internal affairs KTA Kosovo Tax Administration ISP Internet Service Provider UNMIK United Nation Mission in Kosovo MC Microwave Mbps Mega bit per