Task Founded in 1990, Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd is a regional Australian pharmaceutical company that delivers pharmaceutical supply chain services to a number of nursing care facilities in regional Australia. The company has some 100 staff, which includes management, administrative staff and other pharmaceutical staff. Century Pharmaceutical has a small data centre at its main site at Wagga where the company’s servers and data storage is located. The company has the following server infrastructure at its data centre: 2x Active Directory domain controllers on Windows Server 2008 R2; 3x MySQL database servers on Windows Server 2008 R2; 1x Exchange 2007 Email Server on Windows Server 2008 R2; 4x Windows Server 2003 File and Print Servers; 2x Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux Server running Apache and TomCat. The management of the Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd is concerned about the increasing costs of power and cooling to operate their data centre. The management also wants to increase the reliability of the services, reduce the desktop support loads and accelerate desktop provisioning to the staff. They are investigating whether they should employ a virtualisation technology in their data centre to enhance the data centre efficiency while keeping the cost low. They are also considering whether they should use virtualisation to provide an updated desktop environment to their staff. The Challenge You are to consider how to implement a virtual infrastructure for the company and prepare a report for the management. Your report should include: One page executive summary Proposed virtual infrastructure for the data centre including which virtual technology is recommended and the reasons for that recommendation Analysis of how virtual applications and desktops or both will be delivered to the user’s desktops. Design disaster recovery / backup system Information security changes required and the steps required to implement / monitor these changes Final approximate price for your proposal Rationale This assessment item is designed to assess the understanding and use of some advanced topics in virtualisation, analytical skills, planning and design capabilities of students under some predefined requirements. In particular, the assessment covers the following learning objectives: be able to communicate the importance of different virtualisation technologies for x86 and Unix based systems; be able to evaluate which virtualisation technology should be used in a given set of requirements; be able to identify and evaluate the requirements to create a virtual infrastructure; and be able to analyse the requirements for management of a virtual infrastructure. Marking criteria The following rubric will be used when assessing each component in this assignment. Item HD DI CR PS FL Executive Summary A complete summary of the solution and main points of the report.   A highly detailed explanation of main points of the report.   A thorough explanation of main points of the .

1. Task
Founded in 1990, Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd is a regional
Australian pharmaceutical company that delivers
pharmaceutical supply chain services to a number of nursing
care facilities in regional Australia. The company has some 100
staff, which includes management, administrative staff and
other pharmaceutical staff. Century Pharmaceutical has a small
data centre at its main site at Wagga where the company’s
servers and data storage is located. The company has the
following server infrastructure at its data centre:
2x Active Directory domain controllers on Windows Server
2008 R2;
3x MySQL database servers on Windows Server 2008 R2;
1x Exchange 2007 Email Server on Windows Server 2008 R2;
4x Windows Server 2003 File and Print Servers;
2x Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux Server running Apache and
TomCat.
The management of the Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd is
concerned about the increasing costs of power and cooling to
operate their data centre. The management also wants to
increase the reliability of the services, reduce the desktop
support loads and accelerate desktop provisioning to the staff.
They are investigating whether they should employ a
virtualisation technology in their data centre to enhance the data
centre efficiency while keeping the cost low. They are also
considering whether they should use virtualisation to provide an
updated desktop environment to their staff.
The Challenge
You are to consider how to implement a virtual infrastructure
for the company and prepare a report for the management. Your
report should include:
One page executive summary
Proposed virtual infrastructure for the data centre including
which virtual technology is recommended and the reasons for

2. that recommendation
Analysis of how virtual applications and desktops or both will
be delivered to the user’s desktops.
Design disaster recovery / backup system
Information security changes required and the steps required to
implement / monitor these changes
Final approximate price for your proposal
Rationale
This assessment item is designed to assess the understanding
and use of some advanced topics in virtualisation, analytical
skills, planning and design capabilities of students under some
predefined requirements. In particular, the assessment covers
the following learning objectives:
be able to communicate the importance of different
virtualisation technologies for x86 and Unix based systems;
be able to evaluate which virtualisation technology should be
used in a given set of requirements;
be able to identify and evaluate the requirements to create a
virtual infrastructure; and
be able to analyse the requirements for management of a virtual
infrastructure.
Marking criteria
The following rubric will be used when assessing each
component in this assignment.
Item
HD
DI
CR
PS
FL
Executive Summary
A complete summary of the solution and main points of the
report.
A highly detailed explanation of main points of the report.
A thorough explanation of main points of the report.

3. An adequate explanation of main points of the report.
An incomplete, irrelevant or not sufficient information.
Virtual infrastructure proposal
A concise and to the point proposal of virtual infrastructure
with justification supported by literature
A concise and to the point proposal of virtual infrastructure
with justification
A concise and to the point proposal of virtual infrastructure
with justification supported by literature
An adequate description and reasoning of the proposed virtual
infrastructure for data centres.
An incomplete, irrelevant or not sufficient information.
Analysis of desktops / applications delivery to users
Provides complete analysis and makes suggestion on desktops /
applications delivery to users
Provides detailed analysis and make some suggestions on
desktops / applications delivery to users
Provides short and brief analysis and make some suggestions on
desktops / applications delivery to users
Provides short analysis on desktops / applications delivery to
users
An incomplete, irrelevant or not sufficient information.
Disaster recovery / backup plan
A comprehensive description of disaster recovery plans for the
infrastructure.
A highly detailed description of disaster recovery plans for the
infrastructure.
A thorough description of disaster recovery plans for the
infrastructure.
An adequate description of disaster recovery plans for the
infrastructure.
An incomplete, irrelevant or not sufficient information.
Describe information security plan
A comprehensive description of the information security
changes needed

4. A highly detailed discussion on the information security
changes needed in this environment.
A thorough discussion on the information security changes
needed in this environment.
An adequate discussion on the information security changes
needed in this environment.
An incomplete, irrelevant or not sufficient information.
Presentation & referencing
Marks will be deducted for poor presentation, spelling and
grammar mistakes.
Note please follow the given report format in Subject Outline
for this assessment.
Marks will be deducted for not providing / following the proper
APA style referencing.
Note that the guide for APA referencing is provided in the
Resource section of Interact site.