Task 3: Report/Project For this assessment task, you need to prepare a report outlining a virtualization assessment report for a college called ABC College. ABC currently has 20 physical servers, with...

Task 3:  Report/Project

For this assessment task, you need to prepare a report outlining a virtualization assessment report for a college called ABC College.  ABC currently has 20 physical servers, with different Operating System, CPU
utilisation, RAM
utilisation
and application software requirements (see
ABC College  Hardware and Software inventory
below).  You have been asked to prepare a short report for ABC College management about how the current servers could be virtualized.

ABC College has noted the following requirements:

• 
  Any virtualization cluster should not have a single point of failure i.e. the cluster should have a minimum of two nodes
  


• 
  A dedicated physical machine should be reserved for administration
  


• 
  A preference for a Hyper-V solution
  

Your report should include the following parts

• 
  A section briefly describing the business benefits of server virtualization (not more than 200 words)
  


• 
  A section briefly describing what criteria will be applied to determine how the existing physical servers can be virtualized, and which of their existing physical servers fit the criteria for virtualization (not more than 200 words)
  


• 
  A section outlining your proposed solution for virtualization.  This should outline the number of physical servers you will deploy, the virtualization software you will use and the cost of these hardware and software components (for a cluster of two physical servers, a network switch, an ISCSI storage server, and
  a
  administrative host to manage the cluster. )  Note: you can use the cost information provided in the
  Indicative Costs Table
  below
  


• 
  A section showing a network diagram of the proposed configuration.  This should show the two cluster nodes, the management nodes, the switch, and the administrative host all connected in a single network.
  

You can read the
Virtualization Case Study at College
report (in Assessments section for this unit in Moodle)  to get an idea of the type of information included in a Virtualization Assessment report.
Your report does not have to be as large as this one (i.e. your report only needs to include the sections described above, but the Case Study does show you how these types of reports are prepared for customers in
industry.