Design Layout Of The Data Center

For this course, which is different than in other courses, there is only one Portfolio Project option. Throughout each week of this course, except for during Week 7, students will be completing Portfolio Project Milestones, which will be awarded points. Each of these Portfolio Project Milestones is worth 30 points.

Recently, Oza Corporation, a local Denver based mobile phone service provider, announced plans to expand its business operations on a national basis within the United States. The Oza data center is based in Denver, Colorado and currently houses the following physical hardware:

Six web servers
Five database servers
15 file servers
Seven application servers
Gigabit Ethernet network
Several network routers and switches
Telephony equipment
There are currently 25 employees working in the Oza IT Department. These employees comprise database administrators, systems administrators, help desk support engineers, software developers, and managers. The IT Department’s yearly operational cost is $3.5 million.

The Chief Information Officer of Oza Corporation is concerned that the building space in the existing data center is inadequate to support additional server hardware required for the proposed business expansion and thus, she asks you to provide a recommendation for addressing the data center limitation.

Deliverable: Within the initial submission of your Project Milestone, for Week 6, using Microsoft Visio or any open source design tool (such as Dia), propose a design layout of the data center infrastructure environment using server virtualization. Insert the design into a word document. Your paper should be at least 2 pages in length; include at least two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references. References must be formatted in accordance with CSU-Global’s APA requirements.