ADDIS ABABA INSTITUTE

OF TECHNOLOGY(AAiT)

DEPARTMENT OF ITSC

MoST DATA CENTER TECHNICAL

REPORT

PREPARED BY:
FILAGOT ABI ATE/9584/08

SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Daniel Abebe

SUBMITTED DATE: April, 2018
 Acknowledgement

We have taken efforts in this report. However, it would not have been possible
without the kind support and help of Mr. Daniel Abebe and Center of ITSC. I
would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of them. I would like to express our
gratitude towards member of MoST System Administrator Mr. Gebriel for his kind
co-operation and orientation about the data center from its history up to is all over
activities, supplies and services which help as in completion of this report.
 Ministry of Science and Technology(MoST)
Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) is a governmental institution that established for
the first time in December 1975 by proclamation No.62/1975 as a commission.

Vision
To see Ethiopia, entrench the capacities which enable rapid learning, adaptation and utilization
of effective foreign technologies by the year 2022/23.

Mission
Coordinating, encouraging and supporting science and technology activities that realize the
country’s social and economic developments

Affiliate Organizations
Science and Technology Information Center

Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office

Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise

Ethiopian National Accreditation Office

Ethiopian Radiation and Protection Authority

Ethiopian Standards Agency

Ethiopian Space Science

Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute

Ethiopian Metrology Institute of Ethiopia

Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Adama Science and Technology University

And so on…
Introduction
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated
components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally
includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications
connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and
security devices.

Purpose of Visitation
The purpose of the trip was to visit and to know things about a data center. The
data center which is found in MOST (Ministry of science and technology) the
visitation was at 23 April 2018, Monday in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Network Operation Rooms

Its management platform to directly manage the datacenter. Everything regarding
to datacenter network is monitored and administered from this room unless it
needs physical access to the components. The operation room manage all devices
that we use to facilitate the data center.
These components include: -
AC (Air Conditioner)
Surveillance Camera
Bandwidth
Power Distribution Units(PDU)
Controller Board
Alarms
The datacenter
These datacenter is the biggest and modular datacenter in Ethiopia. it is constructed
based on the standards. Every data center that is found in the world are measured
based on the standard or tier 1-5. This data center consists around six rooms.
These are: 1. Power Room
2. Communication Room
3. UPS Room
4. Maintenance Room
5. Power Termination Room
6. Network Operation Room

Network Topology
MOST DATACENTER

 Server: there are 2 high end servers weighted 320 KG a piece they are
used for cloud service for affiliate organizations and for KVM (virtual
machine) purpose.

There are 2 grid servers for creating java virtual machine because they require
more storage and more speed.

There are around 32 rack servers planted in different affiliated organizations

to provide e-service from the datacenter to the organization.

 Firewall: there are 2 firewalls weighted 160 KG, these devices provide
security for the data center as well they provide 40 GB interface integrated with
core switches like stack to provide high speed connection between servers and
to fasten input and output data.
 Switches: there are 2 core switches weighted 300 KG, these devices
provide security for the data center as well they provide 40 GB interface
integrated with firewalls like stack to provide high speed connection between
servers and to fasten input and output data.

There are around 50 access switches to monitor every single activity in the
datacenter starting from surveillance up to transaction activities in the country.

 Power System: power system is one of the critical system that must be
provided efficiently to call they have datacenter. According to ISO
(International Standardize Organization) for a data center standard down time
is less than 2 minutes/year other ways it’s a failure.

From Ethiopia Electric Corporation because its critical they have a high-level
transformer that maintain power when its high and even observe until generator
is on.

In case the Ethiopia Electric Corporation down providing the power needed the
second backup is the Generator with the power of 800KVA work 24/7 with
fuel.
 In case the generator stops working there are 3 UPS batteries with power of
120 KVA each with 360KVA total can work more than 5hours at peak level.

In case the third backup fail which didn’t happen still know there is UPS
battery for the office building measured 300KVA.

 Doors: the doors are electronic and magnetic we can access them with card
and key. These are fire proof doors and when something happens they
automatically open to emergency exit.

 Floors: the floors are special that we used for data center called raised floors,
they have 25cm height, we used them for different purpose for example to
implement cables under it, it has flood sensor and critical alarm and linkage
when it senses humid above it. To do Maintenance the square floors are
removeable we can relocate them after we finish our work.

 Air Conditioning: it’s the critical part of the datacenter because any IT
equipment generate high amount of heat. MoST datacenter uses 4 contained
ACs that suck hot air and release cold air when the temperature arise from 12
degrees Celsius.

 Alarm: when we see Alarm triggers they make siren inside out by detecting
fire/ smoke, unusual activities.
 Surveillance: these cameras are motion sensor and uses high technology to
save the footages (it only saves only when motion is detected). These cameras
have spot sets that are highly secured like controlled board that control the
overall system, when motion is detected it will automatically generate critical
alarm and send SMS for the Administrator who’s in charge at the moment.
Cloud Computing

When one-off tasks are too much for local IT resources to cope with and
investments are not economically viable, cloud computing is the answer. The
advantage of cloud services such as infrastructure as a service is two-fold:
you can call up more computing power whenever you want, and you only pay for
what you actually use. The flexible pay-per-use model is of particular interest for
organizations that experience considerable fluctuation in their demand for IT
resources over the short term but are either unwilling or unable to invest in extra
capacity. MoST datacenter is give this service to research purpose.