1. Automated Infrastructure as a Service
A Team Somnium Project
John Factura
Marcus Brathwaite
Clennon Aranha

2. Agenda Project Purpose What is Automated Infrastructure as a Service?
Challenges/Hardships
Accomplishments
Lessons Learned
Budget
Conclusion
Acknowledgements

3. Project Purpose
Conceptual design to provide clients with their very own Virtual Private Server (VPS), which can be used to meet whatever their needs are
VPS can be created through the company website in which they can design particular components such as RAM, Hard Disk size, Processor Cores, and the Name

4. What is Automated Infrastructure as a Service?
Team Somnium’s Automated Infrastructure as a Service aims to fulfill that need
We allow clients to create their own Virtual Machine through our company website
Clients can specify specific needs such as RAM, Hard Disk size, Processor Cores and the Name, and implement those settings to their Virtual Machine

5. Challenges/Hardships
Could not configure Cisco router to interface with Nortel switch
Had to redesign our Network to use a SOHO router instead, which allowed for communication to the external network (SAITNet)
Creating PHP scripts that would safely and successfully take information to and from our MariaDB database took longer than expected
Certain components such as shell_exec() and SESSIONS() had to be researched and tested along the way
Discovered that PowerShell was needed for our project, so time had to be allocated to learn PowerShell
Some of the scripts were more difficult to figure out i.e. some commands needed specific parameters that were unknown to us

6. Challenges/Hardships
Could not figure out how to traverse through pages while using the POST method on HTML
Tried using Tokens but it didn’t work
For the time being, users have to re login each time they perform a task on the website

7. Accomplishments Working company website with full functionality
PHP script was able to communicate with our database and extract/input information
Created a PowerShell script that successfully created virtual machines based on user input
Server running VMware ESXi, managed through Windows Server 2012 R2 VM with RDS capabilities

8. Lessons Learned Networking is not our strongest suite
Learning PowerShell was tedious but it is a great language to know going out into industry
Time management – have to know when too much time has been spent on a task
Sanitize input on forms to prevent malicious input such as SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting

9. Budget Hardware and Software Costs Item Quantity Cost/Item Total Cost
8 GB ECC RAM 6
$61.58
$369.48
DL385 G7 Enterprise Server with Dual AMD Opteron Processors 1
$4,543.56
SOHO Router
$80.00
Switch
$60.00
Acer 21.5” Full HD Monitor 3
$120.00
$360.00
VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus License $
Total: $

10. Operating Costs Predicted Operating Costs Actual Operating Costs Name
Hours
Rate
Cost
Marcus Brathwaite
130
$55.00 $
Clennon Aranha
John Factura
Total: $21,450.00
Name
Hours
Rate
Cost
Marcus Brathwaite 95
$55.00 $
Clennon Aranha 87
$55.0 $
John Factura
100 $
Total
282
$165.00
$15,155.00

11. Conclusion
We’re pushing an easier way to provide cloud computing, utilizing the skills and knowledge acquired from SAIT.

12. Acknowledgements Christopher Driedger Jason Fisher
For teaching us Data Center related techniques and practices
Jason Fisher
For helping us out along our Capstone journey
Candace Van Apeldoorn
For teaching us everything web related such as HTML, PHP, CSS.
Quamar Al-Zaman
For teaching us the use of Microsoft software such as Active Directory, Remote Desktop Services, DNS and many others.

13. Thank You