IT 3223 Fall 2018 Research Project

Background

You and your team are employed by a medium-sized IT company based in Marietta, GA. Your team has the opportunity to obtain a new client for a new project. The client, Yellow Chicken Credit Union, is a small credit union in the Marietta, Georgia area and has been in business for 3 years. They have one main office, and are looking to build another branch within a 10 mile radius. They desire an overhaul of their current infrastructure (which is held in the main office location). Your group of 3 or 4 students will act as this project team for both this assignment as well as this scenario for the potential client (consists of ONE Project Manager and either 2 or 3 technical experts, depending upon the size of your group).

Their current infrastructure consists of:

5 HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 Servers (Xeon processors, 64 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, 2 are domain controllers for Microsoft Active Directory, one is their web-server running IIS, one is their monitoring server running SolarWinds, which monitors the status of all components of their infrastructure (switches, storage server up/down status, and some hardware failure), and one is their Backup server running Symantec Backup Exec 2012. Each of these servers have two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5 hard drives installed in a RAID 1 configuration.

2 HP ProLiant DL380 Gen7 Servers (Dual Xeon processors, 128 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, one is an SQL Server running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 64-bit. This server has 8 hard drives installed (two 72 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 1 configuration for the OS, and 6 900 GB 10K SAS 2.5 hard drives installed in a RAID 50 configuration for the SQL database), and one is their Microsoft Exchange 2010 & Lync 2010 server with 8 hard drives installed (two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 1 for the OS, and 6 600 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 50 for the Exchange & Lync software).

1 Quantum SuperLoader3 LTO5 Tape Library connected via iSCSI to the HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 Backup server running the Backup Exec 2012 software.

2 Cisco Catalyst 48-port 2960X Ethernet switches (both in their server room: one is connected to those 7 servers mentioned above, and the other is a spare that is currently turned off, but can be used as a backup in case the other 2960X switch goes down).

1 Cisco Catalyst 24-port 2560X Ethernet switch that connects their 10 branch terminals/systems together.

Their branch terminals/systems are HP z420 workstations (Xeon e5-1620v3 processors, 8 GB RAM) running Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit. They are great working order, with no issues reported.

All servers and terminals are running Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection.

Yellow Chicken has a 3^rd-party company that takes care of physical security to the bank, as well as providing all security cameras and storage for the camera footage. They also have an ISP that provides outbound connectivity for this branch, as well as a firewall.

Objective

a. Create a WBS that will be shared with your internal team for these tasks

b. Further analyze any requirements not specified

c. Provide a cost-breakdown analysis of all equipment and software needed to perform this upgrade