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Implementation of a Private Cloud

by Diogo Lus Alves

The exponential growth of hardware requirements coupled with online services development costs have brought the need to create dynamic and resilient systems with networks able to handle high-density traffic.One of the emerging paradigms to achieve this is called Cloud Computing it proposesthe creation of an elastic and modular computing architecture that allows dynamicallocation of hardware and network resources in order to meet the needs of applications.The creation of a Private Cloud based on the OpenStack platform implements thisidea. This solution decentralizes the institution resources making it possible to aggregate resources that are physically spread across several areas of the globe and allows an optimization of computing and network resources.With this in mind, in this thesis a private cloud system was implemented that is capable of elastically leasing and releasing computing resources, allows the creation of public and private networks that connect computation instances and the launch of virtualmachines that instantiate servers and services, and also isolate projects within the same system.The system expansion should start with the addition of extra nodes and the modernization of the existing ones, this expansion will also lead to the emergence of network problems which can be surpassed with the integration of Software Defined Network controllers.Advisors/Committee Members: Amaral, Pedro.