Braveheart Cloud

ComputingCMPS 494 - Spring 2014

Dinesh Devkota | Travis McAdams | Dr. Ihssan Alkadi

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Introduction

● What is the Braveheart Cloud Computing

Project?

● Why do we need it?

● How did you do it?

● How will we use it?

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Project Scope

● “On-Premise” Cloud Storage Solution for

Southeastern.

o Why not Dropbox or Google Drive?

● Implement “The MIST” Security Algorithm

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Project Scope: Evolved

● Planning

o Linux OS directly on Hardware

o VMware ESXi Hypervisor on Hardware

Better Utilization of Hardware Resources

Easier System Administration

Higher Uptime for Systems

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Infrastructure: Hardware

Dell PowerEdge T320

CPU: 4 Core 1.8 Ghz Intel Xeon

RAM: 16GB

Network: Dual Port 1Gb

Storage:

● 3TB RAID 1 Array

(2 x 3TB Drive Mirrored)

● 8GB USB Drivehttp://media.optiodata.com/catalog/category/Dell-T320.png

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Infrastructure: Virtual Layer

● VMware ESXi 5.5.0

Hypervisoro Runs off USB drive

o Loaded into RAM

o Free License

Limited Features● HA

● Live Migration

● Cloning http://cdn3.techworld.com/cmsdata/products/3230674/VMware_Stack.PNG

● Management of Multiple Hosts

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Virtual Machines

● SVN01 [Debian Linux]

o CMPS 285 - Software Engineering

● CENTOS01 [CentOS Linux]

o CMPS 439 - Database

o CMPS 315 - System Administration

● WINDOWS01 [Windows Server 2008 R2]

o CMPS 315 - System Administration

● LAMP01 [Debian Linux]

o Web Server for Dr. Ghassan Alkadi’s Student

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Braveheart Cloud Storage

● Physical server is located in at Fayard 327B

(As of right now)

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Technology Used by Braveheart

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The MIST Security Algorithm

● Key things about Mist Algorithms

❖ Enhanced security question verification

algorithm

❖Requirements

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How Does MIST work?

● Each user creates three security questions

and answers.

● Authentication with “The Mist”:o One of the three questions is displayed.

o The answer is displayed along with 49 other

choices.

o The user must choose the correct answer within

16 seconds to gain access to his account.

o Authenticated user is authorized to use change

password in different screen.

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source: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Demo-Time.jpg

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Q & A

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