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Rebuild an Infrastructure and Justify Overview and Objectives You will examine alternative vendor products and make some comparisons. This requires you to complete the following: • Examine an existing system • Draw conclusions on how to configure an appropriate new infrastructure that leverages the advantages of virtualization. • Make a reasoned argument to support the conclusions To plan out a new system for a small enterprise that is planning on using virtualization to improve their resource utilization. You are to imagine that you are the administrator in charge of designing and configuring a virtual infrastructure in your company’s production environment. Note that you may not need/want to virtualise everything in your company. The decisions on what should be virtual are part of the design. Details of the specific requirements are provided below. You will design the vmware and network configuration for a company system, specifying the following: • Virtual switches • Ports and port groups • Port group policies • Physical connections • Host Configurations • Server Hosting • VM Configuration • VCenter Configuration (please note that you are not to go to town picking networking switches and configurations of them. (I leave that for Grant) I am happy if you give some model suggestions, prices and features that they require). The Context Imagine that you are going to virtualize a gaming companies infrastructure. This company "Destination games" has multiple hardware servers running and they often find that many of the machines are running idle. They are interested in if they can save money or at least space by virtualizing their infrastructure. The game development company has the requirements for the following services that currently run on various servers/computers that are hosted at their headquarters. At present they are all run on separate physical servers in the backroom of the company. 1. Asset Storage Server (ASSET01) containing 12 TB of Storage 2. Git Server (REPOS01) 3. 10 Render servers for high quality asset rendering. (RENDER01-10) 4. Email Server running a Linux based email server (EMAIL01) 5. Support PC's x5 (called ADMINPC01-ADMINPC05) used by admin staff with word, outlook etc... 6. Sharepoint server for design documents (DESIGN01) These systems are connected via a 1 Gig switch uplinked to a WAN connection. You can assume that the WAN connection is sufficient for needs. The business wants to host their servers but they are concerned there is no resilience on their system and they are also running a lot of servers that need constant maintenance. Your job is to redesign the system to bring resilience into the system whilst reducing the number of servers running in their back room. San storage should integrated into any solution you have. The design computers and admin computers need to be replaced with thin clients with suitable software for their software. You will need to examine what is possible to achieve resilient vmware system yet keep the price down. Things to consider and justify in your design 1. Number of physical switches/routers 2. Consolidation of servers 3. High availability? Is it possible how would it be implemented? How does not having SAN storage work with this? 4. Fault Tolerance? Is it possible how would it be implemented? How does not having SAN storage work with this? 5. Thin clients? 3D support for CAD ? 6. Costs. Total cost, Other options? 7. Number of Hosts, CPUs and Memory on hosts 8. Network layout (teaming, vlans, security etc.) 9. Should a server even be virtualised ? You are to spec up a new system and explain how you would configure it using vmware. You are also to do a compare vmware to competing products and give an overview of the relative merits of each product in this context. What is Required The following sections. 1. Outline of hardware/software/license requirements along with costs (in the form of a budget). 2. Outline of configuration of the system. 3. Sketch of the infrastructure of the platform. 4. Instructions for configuration. Very specific instructions that step you through the setup and configuration of the required features. Feel free to screenshot steps where possible rather than write them out in detail. You may not have access to some of the software you are configuring. In that case use existing instructions and customize it for your situation.PLEASE NOTE: you do not need to talk about configuration/installation of servers as they already exist. You simply need to give instructions on how to virtualize them. 5. Comparison of relevant features, price of competing products. 6. Appendix containing any outlines for hardware, licenses etc... In other words you should be able to hand this document to a network/vmware engineer and they would be able to build the entire system without having to look anything up. Criteria 1. Well-reasoned outline of the hardware and software requirements of the system. Including budgets and alternatives if appropriate. 2. Specific list of servers that are required and how they will be configured 3. Specific design of network both virtual and physical. 4. Examination of at least 3 other products that could be used as an alternative with a comparison. 5. Easy to follow instructions for configuring the VMWare Infrastructure (don’t concern yourself with any guest configuration except network configuration). 6. Professional presentation. 7. Executive Summary at the Start of Document.
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