A contribution to the improvement of the Bodum Data Center

• Main Author: Lopes, Luca Gil
• Publication Date: 2023
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/7796
• topic: Virtualization; Hypervisors; Migration; Cloud Migration; VMware; AWS

This work was developed to support an internal project at Bodum Portuguesa, Produção de Artigos Metálicos, SA. Bodum is a multinational company offering customers coffee, tea, and home accessories solutions according to Bodum’s values. Bodum is a company that creates products with excellent design at affordable prices, based on the principle that ”form follows functionality,” keeping sustainability, environmental responsibility, and the well-being of its employees and the planet in mind. Bodum’s current CEO, Peter Bodum, has said, “Good design does not have to be expensive”. This project aims to solve the problem of obsolete servers, the lack of resources, and the waste of processing power on Bodum’s servers. Today they have servers with OS Windows 2008 R2, which is quite old. Insufficient resources slow the servers regarding performance, processing, and communication. With this project, the company will gain more efficient servers. It will also be possible to have current services and applications with greater capacity and performance, which is an immediate need. The project involves migrating six physical servers in Switzerland, Denmark, Australia, the United States of America, Japan, and China. This project aims to improve the perfor mance of those servers while migrating to new servers with the latest operating systems version and more advanced hardware. There is a need to do this migration to ensure better performance of the servers and better control. The new servers are already purchased and placed in their respective locations, and some are already in use, making this migration more complicated than usual. Simply, it is necessary to migrate the old servers to the new ones. After analyzing the scenario, an improvement proposal was made since the servers are not virtualized. A request was made to the company administration proposing to virtualize the new servers before migration. This request is still awaiting a response. If this request is accepted, the new servers will become virtual machines, and the old servers will migrate to the new ones. If the request to virtualize the servers is refused, the migration will still be made to the new servers without virtualizing them. Furthermore, after performing the mentioned migration, a proposal will be made to mi grate the information system infrastructure to a cloud. This proposal includes an analysis of the company’s current system and a comparison with an identical scenario hosted on a cloud providing the company with all the necessary information about the processes and procedures of migration to the cloud. If the company plans to move services to the cloud, it will already have all the information it needs. The implementation of the Cloud infrastructure and the respective migration of the whole system is left for future work if the company’s board of directors agrees. This thesis will undoubtedly serve as a basis for its implementation.