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Maharashtra State Data Centre (MH-SDC)

MahaGov Cloud

Directorate of Information Technology

Government of Maharashtra

May 2013

Rajesh Aggarwal

Secretary-IT,

Government of Maharashtra

Table of Content

Salient Features

Services offered to Departments

Cloud Infrastructure at MH-SDC

Lessons Learned

Key Take Away

Chargeback and self-sustenance

Way Ahead

2Directorate of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra

Cloud computing infrastructure on

VMware and MS HyperVServer Farm

spread area

1450 Sq. Ft.

39 racks

hosting

capacity

Storage

capacity of

86 TB

Over 150+

applications in

production

APNIC/IRINN

IPv4 & IPv6

addresses

Tier 2 Data

Centre as per

TIA-942

standard

Maharashtra State Data Centre

MH-SDC is located on the 4th Floor of New Administrative Building (NAB) opposite Mantralaya.

Salient Features


Department brings only application/website

Virtual Instance is provided in Cloud Setup

Department brings only application/website

Dedicated Servers are

provided by

MH-SDC

Department brings

application/website &

hardware

Rack space, power,

cooling, firewall and

other managed services

provided by MH-SDC

Cloud Service Colocation ServiceManaged Hosting

Encourage Try to avoid Discourage

Services offered to Departments


Background

Conceptualized on implementation for effective and efficient utilization of the resources so

as to reduce overall cost with maximum flexibility.

Proof of Concept – November 2011

Fully operational Cloud – May 2012

Uniqueness about MahaGov Cloud

Only Government Cloud Setup in India

High volume of servers and applications

Own block of 4 B ASN no. and IPv4 & IPv6

Membership in APNIC/IRINN, making it vendor independent.

Cloud Services offered for Government and by Government

High Availability & Load Balancing at ISP level





Uniqueness about MahaGov Cloud

(Contd...)

The rate chart serves as a benchmark

for the User Departments

IPv6 Test Successfully completed

Item wise Monthly rates for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Item Rate

1 vCPU 4 GB RAM, 50 GB SAN Storage with RHEL or

other Linux (OS + PostgreSQL/MySQL) or Windows

OS

4000

Additional 1 vCPU 1000

Additional RAM 4 GB 1000

Additional Storage 50 GB 1000

Public IP and Unmetered Internet Bandwidth 2000

Self-provisioning portal for Cloud with predefined

CAP20000

Rack space - 10 U 20000

Dedicated Rack - 42 U with 3 KVA Power 60000

Additional Power per KVA 5000

Dedicated Server (Intel Xeon 12 Core @ 2.63 GHz, 96

GB RAM, 146 GB X 2 HDD with Windows OS or RHEL

/other Linux OS + MySQL/PostgreSQL

50000



Microsoft Private Cloud Architecture of MH-SDC

• Physical Servers – 6

• Virtual Machines – 25

• Total Applications in production – 7

• Upgrade to Windows 2012 in progress

VMware Private Cloud Architecture of MH-SDC

• Physical Servers – 24

• Virtual Machines – 302

• Total Applications in production – 143

MH-SDC Cloud Architecture


User Awareness

Increase the maturity of Security processes

Continuous monitoring

Security at each layer

Security a priority in each initiative

Hand-in-Hand with the Developers, Service Providers, Departments, etc.

Security


Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a

Service

Control and Flexibility of Security

Less

More

More

Less

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Benefits for Maharashtra Government


Lower Costs

Lower Physical Resources

Operational Cost

Agility

Eliminate procurement process

Less Time to provision

Efficient Utilization

No Downtime

Universal resource access

Common platform

Easy Accessibility

Better Management and monitoring

Quick Backup/Restoration

Continuous update

Ownership of updates with

SDC

Latest updates

Collaboration

Accessibility – Anytime

Anywhere

Dept. can focus in their core

sector

Dept. need not be IT Experts

Start with – IaaS and PaaS

Capacity planning

CPU and RAM – should be in ratio

Rule based auto scaling of resources

Public and Management Traffic – Min. 4 NIC

Licensing Policy – Operating System and Databases

Backup and Replication – for entire Virtual Instance

Awareness sessions – departments and developers

Lessons Learned


Key Take Away


Option 1:

Private Cloud Service Provider in SDC

Option 2:

State’s nodal agency can take a lead and act as a cloud service provider

Option 3:

Other State SDC as Cloud service provider

Option 4:

Dedicated Government cloud for multiple states

Started with free offering to all departments

Chargeback and metering mechanism is devised

Charge will be levied for Corporations, Boards, etc.

Cloud service charges for GoI funding scheme

Incentive to Departments for SDC usage

Chargeback & Self-sustenance


Sample Chargeback Report


Awards


IPv6 rollout

Increasing the capacity

‘You can also do it’

Continual improvement and innovate

Lets build a Community Cloud

BCP / DR

Way Ahead


The Journey Continues….

Directorate of Information Technology

Government of Maharashtra,

7th Floor, Mantralaya,

Mumbai

Hardware to be procured for Cloud setup

Achieving efficient licensing

Management of Cloud services

Roles and Responsibilities for Cloud services

Disaster Recovery for Cloud

Building confidence of Departments

Security Risks – for e.g. Loss of Governance, Lock In, Isolation

failure, Data protection, Data deletion (if required), Backups

IPv6 enablement at SDC

Points for Discussion


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