• Virtual Machine Design for a Solar Panel Manufacturing Company. Recently, you have been hired as a Virtualization Administrator for a solar panel manufacturing company. While the company is in Denver, the growth of the industry has prompted them to offer their services nationwide. Their current Information Technology infrastructure in their local data center consists of the following physical hardware: Three domain controllers with a Single Forest Single Domain Active Directory model, Three Microsoft Exchange servers, Ten web servers, Five application servers, Eight database servers, Hardware-based load balancer, Firewalls, Routers and switches, and VoIP infrastructure.
• The Information Technology staff is limited to developers, a database administrator, network administrator, help desk support staff, and a network engineer. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the company is worried that with the rapid expansion of the business, the current hardware will not support the required computing power. The CIO estimated that at least 15 to 20 servers (web, application, database) will be needed. Due to space and cooling issues in the data center, you have been tasked to develop a plan for virtual technology. As a Virtualization Administrator, it is your job to come up with a plan that meets business requirements. Deliverable: Research using the Internet, and/or the textbook on one of the popular virtualization technologies. Make a recommendation to your CIO on virtualization technology that should be implemented and why.
• Based on your research, describe to your CIOs how the virtual machines will be configured.
• Your APA-formatted proposal should be at least three pages in length

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Virtualization Technologies Virtualization can be defined as the process where physical systems are migrated into the virtual environment It can also be referred to as the creation of a virtual versio... View the full answer