Regional Gardens Ltd is a company that runs a number of related gardening enterprises. It has a large display garden that it opens for public inspection a number of times a year. The company also ownsthe Regional Gardens Nursery which sells plants and garden supplies to the public. The company also owns Regional Garden Planners, which is a small company that provides garden advice, design and consultancy services.
Regional Gardens Ltd has a small data centre at its main site in Bathurst where the company’s servers and data storage is located. The company has the following server infrastructure:
The company has some 150 staff, who include management, administrative staff, nursery and Regional Garden Planners staff. The company has a range of different types of relatively old personal computers, which run Windows XP, to connect to the company data centre. These computers will need to be updated in the near future.
The directors of Regional Gardens Ltd are concerned about the increasing costs of power and cooling to operate their data centre and they are investigating whether they should employ a virtualization technology in their data centre. They are also considering whether they should use virtualisation to provide an updated desktop environment to their staff.
You are to consider how to implement a virtual infrastructure for the company and prepare a report for the directors of Regional Gardens Ltd. Your report should include:
6. Marking criteria
Marking Criteria |
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Question |
Description |
Marks |
1 |
Executive summary |
__ / 10 |
Describe virtual infrastructure |
__ / 40 |
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Describe delivery of desktops/applications |
__ / 10 |
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Describe Disaster Recovery plans for the infrastructure |
__ / 20 |
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Describe Information Security plans for the infrastructure |
__ / 20 |
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Total Marks |
__ / 100 |
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Marks deducted for poor presentation, spelling, grammar |
__ / – 5 |
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Marks deducted for incorrect APA 6th edition referencing |
__ / – 5 |