What you are going to do in this project is pretend that you are the system administrator for an organization that is attempting to determine if virtualization of its server infrastructure would be beneficial to the organization from a financial perspective. As the system administrator you are in charge of conducting the cost/benefit analysis for the proposed virtualization project. This will include creating financial spreadsheets using a 5 year projection and writing a brief report summarizing your findings. CNT 4603: Project Two Page 4 Dr. Mark Llewellyn Project Two: Overview

As explained in the notes, a feasibility analysis such as this requires that you be able to compare the way the organization is currently operating with the proposed changes to the operation.

The first step in the analysis is to completely determine the costs associated with the current operational technique.

For this project, we will restrict the analysis to only a server virtualization project. This means that we need to develop a complete cost picture of the current server infrastructure to compare to a proposed server infrastructure cost.

The next few pages describe the current infrastructure of the organization and the proposed virtualization project. Lets call the organization the HostPenny (were not as big as HostDime!). CNT 4603: Project Two Page 5 Dr. Mark Llewellyn Project Two:

The Current Scenario Currently HostPenny is running 10,000 physical servers in its data center which support various applications and several different operating systems.

These servers are configured into four different groups: Group 1 consists of 8000 mission critical servers.

Group 1 servers consume 3500W of power each at full load (100% CPU utilization).

The Group 1 servers average load is 18%. Group 2 consists of 1000 mission critical servers.

Group 2 servers consume 4500W of power each at full load (100% CPU utilization).

The Group 2 servers average load is 12%. Group 3 consists of 50 non-mission critical in-house application and file servers, each of which consumes 2800W of power at full load. The servers in this group run with an average load of 3% .

Group 4 consists of a pool of 950 redundant servers utilized as backup servers.

The Group 4 servers are split into two subgroups, call them Group 4A with 500 servers and Group 4B with 450 servers.

Group 4A servers draw 3800W at full load and the Group 4B servers draw 3300W at full load.

The Group 4 servers are used as hot backups for, primarily, Groups 1 and 2, but can be used by any group as needed.

Group 4A and 4B servers run at average 1% load.

Objectives: 1. To practice conducting a financial feasibility cost benefit analysis for a server virtualization project. 2. To prepare an executive summary of the feasibility study.

I need help with the executive summary.