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Assignment 1

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ABC, Inc. (ABC) is a small to medium sized company that creates math tutorial videos and due to their popularity, is looking to expand into other subjects such as Science and Computing. ABC does business from an office building where one of the floors is setup with IT staff and equipment. The floor has a secured room that houses the servers. The servers run on Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems and they only hold one role each. There is a DC, Exchange, SQL, DHCP, DNS, a Web server that host an intranet and a Web server that is public facing. All of the servers are underutilized, and are not setup to restore services quickly if the system suffers a failure.
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Underutilized servers are not running efficiently as they can …show more content…

The IT Specialists will also use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit to analyze the current infrastructure to see which servers can be converted and to see if further work needs to be done to get them ready. Combining the information gained from the interviews and the MAP tool results, the consultants can start the design process.
During this phase is where the consultants will determine the hardware and software that are needed to support the virtual environment. The consultants, after reviewing the results, determined that 3 servers, 3 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter license, and an application from Starwind will best meet ABC’s needs. The Windows licenses allows ABC to deploy multiple VM instances without the need to purchase extra copies of Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems. The Starwind application will be used to create virtual storage area network (vSAN), which provides high availability and redundancy. A physical SAN, although efficient and reliable, is expensive and ABC’s current size doesn’t justify its use.
After the necessary hardware and software has been acquired, the IT Specialists will start setting up, installing, and adding the servers to the domain. They will then use the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 (MVMC) tool to convert the physical hosts to VMs, and place on the host HYPERV1. Once converted, the VMs will be upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2, and cloned. On hosts HYPERV2 and HYPERV3, VMs will be

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