COMP7041: You Have Been Tasked With Migrating An Existing Physical Server Infrastructure: Virtualization Technology Case Study, TCD, Ireland

You have been tasked with migrating an existing physical server infrastructure to a virtualized infrastructure.

An initial analysis of the physical infrastructure has identified the servers that can be migrated to virtual machines and run on Hypervisors.

You are required to come up with a design that will facilitate the migration to a virtual infrastructure.

To do this you need to identify the following:

1. The number of Hypervisors required:

a) To run the virtual machines without any spare capacity

b)To run the virtual machines with 40% spare capacity

c) To provide High Availability for all virtual machines

2. The amount of memory (RAM) consolidation that can be safely achieved. Then, use this to calculate how much memory will be required for each Hypervisor.

3. The cost savings in terms of the power required to run the Hypervisors versus the physical servers over a year (Given that each server consumes 500w of power, requires 500w of cooling, and electrical power costs 10c per kilowatt-hour).

4. The requirements for the shared storage environment.

This involves identifying:

a) The number of hard disks required to store the virtual machine files

b) How the virtual machine files can be protected against disk failure

c) The number of hard disks after the protection mechanism has been implemented

d) The cost of the overall shared storage solution

A sample diagram of the proposed infrastructure (include Hypervisors, shared storage, and network infrastructure). As well as this you should give a detailed description of the components shown in the diagram