This project will be research paper which should be a minimum of 7-8 pages discussing high availability and fail-over solutions for a virtualized infrastructure. Since the virtualization technologies differ in regards to implementation of virtualized infrastructure, the group must choose two virtualization platforms and compare and contrast high availability solutions. The following are virtualization platforms to choose from: (Pick 2 platforms)

ESX/ESXi Server (VMWARE)

XenServer (Citrix)

OpenKVM (Open Source - http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page )

Microsoft Hyper-V (Microsoft)

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization {RHEV 3.0} (http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/virtualization/enterprise-virtualization )

Each groups research paper must discuss virtual machine availability, disaster recovery and backup/recovery solutions related to business continuity for an organization. This paper should clearly outline the following subjects:

Backup/Recovery implications for virtual machines

High Availability design and tools to assist virtual machines recover

Disaster Recovery design over geographically dispersed locations

The research paper should contain detailed diagrams and must contain clear explanation of the solution chosen and implemented. Each groups research paper should outline considerations regarding hypervisor capabilities, virtual networking, virtual storage, transactional failover, virtual memory and data center considerations. Each groups research paper should discuss topics such topics as:

Image& file-level backup of guest operating environment

Guest O/S crash consistency functionality

Application crash consistency checks (If a guest OS was running Exchange or SQL server, how would it recovery from a crash?)

Discuss in details each platform tools for recovering from disasters / file loss, deletion, corruption and overwritten user files and folders. Each paper must concluded by deciding which platform has superior functionality and solutions.

Please site resources utilizing APA or MLA formatting.