Assignment
Board of Directors, has approved the ITS department to develop the next generation data center for future growth at SMU. This initiative will provide the next level of services to SMU students through a new expanded and upgraded data center in the future STEM building.
They have approved an initial 10-million-dollar investment for this data center to expand the the current infrastructure to accommodate 2,000 more students and to validate performance of future technologies. As a senior data center design team consisting of a Network Engineer, Server Architect, Storage Engineer, and Security Expert, you are task with doing the following:
Design the elements of network, servers, storage, and security that will support key solutions. Design should incorporte backup, and failover services. There will be connections from the new data center to O-Grady Library (ITS main datacenter), WAN links to JBLM (both Stone Ed & McChord Ed Center Bldg) using high speed WAN links. Including in this design a cost/benefit analysis of your design showing why you used certain equipment and bandwidth. Show a rough timeline needed to complete the project and main phases. Develop the overall project and equipment/infrastructure costs for approval.
Key Deliverables:
Write up a PoC proposal in MS Word documenting the following:
- Local Area Network/Wide Area Network links and vendors used
- Computing designs for network, server, storage, and security (include elements of the Cloud as well)
- Virtualized server design for supported application environment
- Infrastructure support services based off an enterprise management system
- Performance metrics gathering and design
- Showcase concepts of uptime requirements, redundancy as needed with power, network, server, and storage infrastructure.
Detail the costs of the PoC in a Bill of Materials (BOM) Excel spreadsheet
Present a PowerPoint of your findings to the Saint Martin's Board for project approval
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