Submission of
all report writing
During this 2
weeks period time,my supervisor ask me to submit all report writing.The report
writing that should be submitted :
1:Proposal
Report
2:Presentation
Proposal Slideshow
3:Progress
Report
SEMESTER 1 2012 - WEEK 15
Final
Progress Report
By follow the guidelines provide,i manage
to complete my progress report.My progress report i shown below :
To :
Mr. Muhammad Ghazali B. Twahir @Hj Tahir
From :
Ahmad Ridhwan Bin Razali (51262210246)
Date :
April 20, 2012
Subject: Progress Report (7th March 2012 –
20th April 2012)
Title: Server Virtualization for Small
Medium Enterprise (SME)
Introduction
The purpose of this project is to create a
new and manageability server virtualization that can be used by new established
company or SME Company. This project uses Proxmox VE to develop virtualization
of the physical servers. This progress report discuss about what have been done
from 7th March 2012 until 20th April 2012.
Work
completed from 7th March 2012 – 20th April 2012
During this period, nothing much has been
done because the main focus for this semester more in documentations and
pre-presentation of final year project 1 (FYP 1) that has been held on 12th
April 2012.Besides that, the development of Proxmox VE still be studied and
hardware for the suitable and compatible server has been bought one by one. For
now, many researches still in progress to learn and how to apply the virtual
template that can be use to replace the exact physical server.
Work
to be completed by 7 September 2012
After design and build a compatible
physical server that include RAM, Motherboard, DVD writer, Processor, Hard
disk, casing and also a monitor,Promox VE have to be install. Before installing
the Proxmox software, important server that use for SME must first be
determine, Email Server, Web Hosting Server, Web Server, Account Server and
Human Resources Server are the most important server need by the SME Company.
Next step is to find suitable templates that can react as server in virtual way
to replace the functionality of physical server. The project will finish in
estimated time of early September 2012.
Problem
Encountered
During researching of implementing all
templates in the Proxmox VE software, problem occur because there are no
references because there are not much research have been done before this about
Proxmox VE.This is because this type of virtualization method is new and not so
familiar with other programmer besides this software is Linux based operation
system where it can be develop by other people without knowing it is compatible
or not. There is more research about Windows based operation virtualization
like Virtual Box or Microsoft Virtual.
Conclusion
This project is still under progress and
will be finished at the time given. For now, nothing more can be done besides
doing more research on the method to implement virtual templates in the Proxmox
software besides additional function like performance and limitations of this
server virtualization.
CHAPTER
1: INTRODUCTION
1.1
Introduction of chapter
This chapter discuss about the background
of the project, problem statement which lead to project idea, objective of this
project and limitation of this project.
1.2 Project
background
The objective of virtualization is to
enable sharing, optimized utilization, scalability and management of a server's
resources without having to know its inherent complexities. Server
virtualization eases the disaster recovery process as well as improving upon
server availability, scalability and manageability by centralizing all server
administration activities. However, it is unrealistic to expect the
virtualization can manage to do all the application without any disturbance or
interrupted.
The reliability of server virtualization
cannot be guaranteed absolutely as the technology nowadays evolve everyday and
disturbance can cause some disastrous. Sensitive sectors might think
judiciously if the server virtualization is used to create virtual private
servers shared with unrelated or unknown users.
Server virtualization reliability
estimation has found to be one of the best methods of maximizing physical
resources to maximize the investment in hardware besides achieving higher
server density. There are several approaches to server virtualization; virtual
machine model, paravirtual machine model and virtualization at the operating
system (OS) layer. Different approach have different application need to be
run, there are several application or software that can be used ; VMware ,
Microsoft Virtual Server , Proxmox VE , UML , Virtual Box , Solaris Zones and
many other application.
1.3 Project
Statement
This project will be using virtual software
that will make actual server became virtual by using Proxmox VE software
besides using virtual appliances that act as virtual server that is important
for SME Company. By using both software, it will demonstrate how the actual
server transform into virtual server and can be implement into one host server
and can each of virtual server can be manage by using just one host server.
There are huge amount of money have been used by established and big company in
order to manage their IT department by managing each of server that have been
used. So one of the solutions is virtualization method where one host server
can control many guest servers. Applying Proxmox software to virtual all
physical server seems to be appropriate way because virtual server can be
easily be manage by Proxmox VE software.
1.4 Objective
The main objective of this project is to
design, build and test a server virtualization to be used in small medium
enterprise (SME). This server virtualization is designed to run multiple server
application use in SME into one physical server with least user intervention or
regular management. This server also has user friendly and interactive server
configuration panel using web based interface.
1.1 To
build compatible host server.
2.1 To
develop virtual server using Proxmox VE for SME.
3.1 To
test functionality each of the virtual server.
1.5 Scope
of Project /Limitation
Although many research have been done to
make this project success but like others project, it still has some problem.
There are some limitations which can be improved in the future like the scale
of this project. Server Virtualization for SME Company will not be test or
implement in the SME Company because there are many protocol must be complete
before some new project can be implement into some company system. Besides
that, with the budget of this project it is impossible for SME Company will
accept the purpose of implementing new server system in their system.
Performance of this virtual server can be one of limitations of this project
because function of server for virtual and actual maybe function in same way
but how many guest can be access to virtual server compared to actual server.
1.6 Summary
of Chapter
Basically, this project focused on
virtualization of an actual server. This project also will be using Proxmox VE
software and templates of virtual appliances to replace an actual server. With
this project, some problem facing by SME Company like budget and space to place
the actual server can be reduce.
CHAPTER
2: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 History
2.1.1 Previous
work
There are number of method and approaches
that have been used or proposed to reduce the electricity wastage and decrease
the budget to manage the server efficiently. One of the solution propose is
virtualization and there are many type of virtualization have been develop.
Anand Mitra have been developing and researching about virtualization and produce
very good virtualization software known as VxFS and CFS.It is an online upgrade
for VERITAS File system and design fast path with improved performance of the
file system. Besides software development, he also designs the integration of
Power6 or powerful CPU feature of storage keys for the VERITAS storage
stack.
2.1.2 Present
work
In contrast to the existing server
virtualization, it does not feature specifically for SME Company purpose and
cannot be used by for different operation system (OS).With this project, the
main focus in developing this project is for SME Company used beside using new
approach of virtualization system, Proxmox VE that can be installed either
Microsoft or Linux based operation system.
2.2 Review
of History
In 1964, IBM had developed a Virtual
Machine Monitor (CP) to run their various OSes on their mainframes. Hardware
was too expensive to leave underutilized. They had addressed many of the
performance challenges inherent in virtualization by designing hardware
amenable to virtualization. However with the advent of cheap computing
resources and proliferation of commodity hardware, virtualization was no longer
popular and was viewed as an artifact of an era where computing resources were
scarce. This was reflected in design of x86 architectures which no longer
provided enough support to implement virtualization efficiently.
With the cost of hardware going down and
complexities of software increasing, a large number of administrators started
putting one application per server. This provides them isolation, where one
application does not interfere with other application. However, over some time
it started resulting into a problem called server sprawl. There are too many
underutilized servers in data centers. Most windows servers have average
utilization between 5% and 15%. This utilization rate will further go down with
dual core and quad core processors becoming very common. In addition to the
cost of the hardware, there are also power and cooling requirements for all
these servers. The earlier problem of utilization of hardware resources has
started surfacing again.
Ironically the very reason which resulted
in the demise of virtualization in the mainstream was the cause of its
resurrection. The features which made the OSes attractive, also made them more
fragile. And this renewed interest in virtualization resulted into VMW are
providing a server virtualization solution for x86 machines in 1999. Server
consolidation has increased the server utilization to the 60% to 80% level.
This has resulted in 5 to 15 times reduction in the servers.
Virtual machines have introduced a whole
new paradigm of looking at operating systems. Traditionally they were coupled
with physical machines, and they needed to know all the peculiarities of
hardware. Once hardware becomes obsolete, your operating system becomes
obsolete too. But virtual machines have changed that notion. They have
decoupled the operating systems from hardware by introducing a virtualization
layer called virtual machine monitor (VMM).
2.3 Summary
As a result, this project concept has never
been made specifically for one purpose before this. Although there are project
that involves virtualization server, but this project is the first project that
focusing on SME Company needed and can be implement to various type of
operation system (OS) based.
CHAPTER
3: METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
This chapter discuss about the block
diagram of the project with focusing on software and hardware that used in this
project. Basically, this project contain of both software and hardware.
3.2 Block
Diagram
Figure 1 Block Diagram
Virtual machine
A virtual machine is a type of computer
application used to create a virtual environment, which is referred to as
virtualization. Virtualization allows the user to see the infrastructure of a
network through a process of aggregation. Virtualization may also be used to
run multiple operating systems at the same time. Through the help of a virtual
machine, the user can operate software located on the computer platform.
Client
Central processing unit (CPU), random
access memory (RAM), local area network (LAN) and disk. In other words,
hardware is workstation or desktop.
3.3 Hardware
Development
The main hardware used in this project is
just the CPU as the host server that will manage the entire virtual server
implement in the host server.
3.4 Software
Development
This project is mainly about software
application because it is virtualization method for server. The software use is
Proxmox VE which is free software develop by Linux based operation system. It
will function as virtual server that will be installed in the host server.
3.5 Summary
This project will use hardware to develop
the host server and software to design the virtual server. The block diagram
shown above gives more accurate information on how this project will be done
and the explanations given shows the function of all component and hardware use
in this project.
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