
Introduction
BdREN High Performance Computing (HPC) system has been implemented with the intent to provide Cloud services to all members of BdREN which are Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), Medical Colleges, Research Institutes and similar other organizations located in Bangladesh. A total of 34 Public universities and 1(one) Private Universities were targeted in the first phase which has lately been extended to additional 7(seven) Private Universities, 12(twelve) Medical Colleges and 10(ten) Research Institutes. The setup utilizes the Cloud services for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and may be expanded to Software as a Services (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) at a later stage once the applications will be there to place in the cloud.
The solution consists of 2 portions of work which are the HP Cloud System Matrix (CSM) implementation and HP Cloud Management solution. The CSM will supply the compute infrastructure and Cloud Management Service will provide the web portal, monitoring and automation services.

Shared Disk Storage
The necessary shared disk storage for the virtualized server infrastructure will be provided and sufficient for the growth of Cloud demand.
The virtualized server infrastructure is a consumer of services provided by the disk storage infrastructure. To this end, it will provide
a set of requests and requirements to the disk storage infrastructure.
It is assumed that the proposed disk storage will provide the virtualized server infrastructure with shared disk storage of required
capacity, structure, performance attributes and will be provisioned in time for implementation of the virtualized server infrastructure.
Operational Backup and Recovery
The operational backup and recovery for the virtualized server infrastructure will be provided as an outcome but implemented by our partner CSL in this project. VMware will leverage the snapshot capabilities of the proposed shared disk storage system and will be tightly integrated with it. Backup and Recovery will be delivered in another document set and therefore the operational backup and recovery design is not cover in Cloud System Matrix.
Data Centre Network
It is assumed that the data centre Ethernet switches will be able to provide redundant 10 Gb links to the UGC and BUET data centers for
use by the virtualized server infrastructure.
It is also assumed that the data center network infrastructure will support use of VLANs and that VLANs will be used. The network will
be an Extended Network from UGC to BUET for Management network and Production
Network to ensure seamless failover of services in the event of disaster. This seamless failover is regard as no changes to the VMs
services in term of IP address and IP segment. External DNS available to handle VM workload that need to publish to internet. Setup of such external DNS server is not part of the
project.
Data Centre Hosting
The two data centres (UGC and BUET) have the following infrastructural and passive support facilities:
Solution Overview
Solution Objective
HP CloudSystem Matrix is an IaaS solution for private and hybrid cloud deployment models, built on proven HP Converged Infrastructure
technologies, such as HP CloudSystem, Matrix Operating Environment and Cloud Service Automation for Matrix as well as SiteScope
monitoring functionality.
HP CloudSystem Matrix is a complete solution implementing the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy. It is based on a shared services
model, using pools of compute, storage, and network resources. Matrix integrates proven technologies to provide a complete platform
upon which infrastructure services can be readily provisioned and adjusted to meet changing business demands.
HP CloudSystem Matrix makes use of industry-standard, modular components, but it is far more than simply a collection of components.
In a single Converged Infrastructure platform, Matrix integrates technologies from across the HP enterprise portfolios that have been
proven in the marketplace to provide value in demanding datacenter environments. Matrix also incorporates the offerings of leading
application, management, network, and storage partners, so that the solution fits seamlessly into diverse customer environments and
works with all traditional application workloads.
The Matrix management console, built on HP Matrix Operating Environment, combines automated provisioning, capacity planning, disaster
recovery, and a self-service portal. The figure provides a solution diagram of HP CloudSystem Matrix:

The Matrix Operating Environment (OE) includes an integrated service designer, self-service infrastructure portal, and auto-provisioning capabilities. It includes the tools to manage and optimize resource pools, multi-tenancy, and a recovery management solution for Proliant. CSA for Matrix OE integrates basic application provisioning, monitoring, and patch management. Using included Cloud APIs, one can easily customize the operating environment to one’s specific requirements, enabling chargeback and billing integration, integration into approval processes, and other process automation tasks.

The goals of the BDREN CloudSystem Matrix implementation is to provide this foundational infrastructure capabilities for BDREN’s IaaS cloud computing services platform by enabling the aforementioned provisioning of elastic infrastructure services in the form of Virtual Machines, the optimization of these infrastructure resources, and the protection of the continuity of these services.
Solution Description Overview
Overview of the CSM in the Overall Cloud Solution
From the overall hardware deployed at UGC Data Center and at BUET Disaster Recovery site it can be represented by the diagram below and it can be concluded that the design itself can be articulated by final rack layout and layer by specific resources component.

Storage replication recovery has been configured between DC and DR that leverage on HP 3Par remote copy feature to replicate production data to disaster recovery sites. Although there is Data Protector Backup software that manages the backup data at production site, however the 3Par Remote Copy (RC) data in DR site will serve as secondary data backup if granular recovery is required. Matrix Recovery Manager is deployed along with RC as the disaster recovery solution for VMs for automated powering on of VMs when disaster will occur.
The infrastructure as a services perform the virtualization of computing hardware, storage, and network resources. The services within the infrastructure as a services category in the Supply layer are built on the foundation of VMware vSphere platform.
List of equipment used to build BdREN Cloud
HP Hardware | Description | Location | Quantity |
---|---|---|---|
Blade Chassis | Total 2 Chassis
(1 Starter Kit + 1 Expansion Kit): 2xHP CloudSystem Matrix including 1x DL360pG8 32G for CMS server [Per Blade Chassis] 2x VC Flex-10/10D Module(10x10Gbps SFP+ uplinks, 16x 10Gbps downlinks to Server NIC), 2x VC-FC 8Gb 24port(8x 2/4/8Gbps uplinks to external SAN SW, 16x 8Gbps downlinks ports) |
UGC DC | 1 |
Blade Chassis (1 Unit): 1xHP Cloud System Matrix [Per Blade Chassis] 2x VC Flex-10/10D Module(10x10Gbps SFP+ uplinks, 16x 10Gbps downlinks to Server NIC), 2x VC-FC 8Gb 24port (8x 2/4/8Gbps uplinks to external SAN SW, 16x 8Gbps downlinks ports) |
BUET DR | 1 | |
Blade Server | Blade Server : BL460c Gen8 with 2x3.0GHz Ten Core CPU/96GB RAM/2x600GB HDD/2x10Gb NIC (Integrated)/2xDual Port 8Gb FC/HP |
UGC DC | 16 |
Blade Server : BL460c Gen8 with 2x3.0GHz Ten Core CPU/96GB RAM/2x600GB HDD/2x10Gb NIC (Integrated)/2xDual Port 8Gb FC/HP |
BUET DR | 8 | |
SAN Switch | HP StoreFabric SN6500B Fibre Channel Switch | UGC DC | 2 |
HP StoreFabric SN6500B Fibre Channel Switch | BUET DC | 2 | |
Backup Server | DL 380p G8/8x8GB memory/8x600GB SAS 10K/82Q FC dual ports HBA |
UGC DC | 1 |
DL 380p G8/8x8GB memory/8x600GB SAS 10K/82Q FC dual ports HBA |
BUET DC | 1 | |
Tape Library | HP MSL6480 Tape Library with 4xLTO-6 Drive and 160 Cartridge Slots |
UGC DC | 1 |
HP MSL6480 Tape Library with 4xLTO-6 Drive and 160 Cartridge Slots |
BUET DR | 1 | |
Cloud Management Server | Hardware for Cloud Management Software Server for SA - DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/Red Hat Linux |
UGC DC | 1 |
Hardware for Cloud Management Software Server for CSA/Sitescope/AM/OO/DB -DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/MS Win 2008 |
5 | ||
Hardware for Cloud Management Software Server for SA - DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/Red Hat Linux |
BUET DR | 1 | |
Hardware for Cloud Management Software Server for CSA/Sitescope/AM/OO/DB -DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/MS Win 2008 |
5 | ||
Server Rack | HP 11642 1075mm Shock Rack 42U, KVM Console Kit | UGC DC | 2 |
HP 642 1075mm Intelligent Rack 42U, KVM Console Kit | 2 | ||
HP 11642 1075mm Shock Rack 42U, KVM Console Kit | BUET DR | 2 | |
IP KVM | HP 2x1Ex16 KVM IP Console | UGC DC | 4 |
BUET DR | 2 | ||
Active Directory | Server for AD-DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/MS Win 2012 |
UGC DC | 1 |
Server for AD-DL380p Gen8 with 1xE5-2643 3.0GHz 4c CPU/16GB RAM/2x600GB SAS/MS Win 2012 |
BUET DR | 1 |
CloudSystem Infrastructure Overview

UCG Data Center Hardware Solution
Network Infrastructure that enables the transmission of several network traffic such as production, management and backup between all other nodes within the solution.
AD, DHCP and DNS services are to be provided through the network infrastructure in the compute/server farm and are critical for CSM to provision and inventory
logical servers. Logical servers are server identities that can be flexibly allocated virtual machines or physical blades.
Note: Virtual machine has been deployed instead of physical server with 3par Service Processor that allows for the monitoring and management for HP 3Par remote support to diagnose any potential events.
The MOE platform will provide infrastructure orchestration capabilities for IaaS and will integrate with HP CSA for Private/Public Cloud Self Service Infrastructure Portal Services.
Cloud Management servers comprising:
Data Center Utilisation
Windows VM (Memory Utilization)

Windows VM (CPU Utilization)

Linux VM (Memory Utilization)

Linux VM (CPU Utilization)
