Define the Services and Requirements
You have to design a new data center infrastructure that will support the emerging needs of your organization. This hands-on assignment is the first step in that process.
Use your existing environment if you’re an end-user, the environment of one of your customers, or maybe a sample project you were asked to work on and document the service requirements:
- What services will the new data center offer?
- How will the users consume the services?
- What level of self-provisioning and automation will you offer?
- Will the users deploy application stacks themselves?
- Will they manage their own security and network services?
- Disaster recovery requirements.
Based on these requirements, try to estimate the infrastructure requirements:
- Number of servers and storage nodes;
- Security- and network services needed to support the user requirements;
- Storage access technology;
- Required number of network ports;
- Estimated network bandwidth (internal and external);
- Virtual networking needs;
- IP address mobility requirements.