How to implement a virtual infrastructure and prepare a report for the TRP group. 

Proposed virtual infrastructure for the data centre. using VMware

1)A discussion of the technical infrastructure proposed including:

a) Number and type of hosts required including CPU, RAM and internal storage requirements

b) Host clustering requirements and number of VMs expected to be hosted on the cluster,

c) Storage requirements (external to servers), including how this storage will be presented to VMs,

d)Additional network requirements to support this infrastructure.

2) Any Information Security changes required and the steps required to implement/monitor these change

The following servers information is for self-managed data centre

Active Directory domain controllers on Windows Server 2012 R2, (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 140GB HDD). These servers are used for authentication and authorisation;

SQL Server 11.0 (2012) database servers on Windows Server 2012 (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 500GB RAID-5 array). These servers are used for database operations for Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and their Client Design application;

Exchange 2013 email server on Windows Server 2012 R2 (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);

Windows Server 2016 File and Print servers (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);

SharePoint 2013 server on Windows Server 2012 R2 (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 16GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);

1-Client Design and CRM application server on Windows Server 2016 (2 x Xeon 3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 250GB RAID-1 array);

2 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7.1 (2015) servers running Apache TomCat v. 7.0 (2 x Xeon 2.8GHZ, 16GB RAM, 140GB HDD).

1 -Cisco 5505 ASA Firewall v9.3 (2014)