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APPLIED VIRTUAL NETWORKS

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FINAL PROJECT: PHASE 1 - 3

COMP 4912

DAEMON BEHR

APR 14, 2015

KEVIN SUNG-LING WU

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Backup 01 39

Backup 02 40

Backup 03 41

Log Insight 42

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Project Overview Introduction

OMNI Telecommunications (OMNITEL) is a Vancouver based ISP serving companies nationwide that was founded

during the early 1990s. OMNITEL’s main business was to provide clients with cost effective web hosting, VOIP

and colocation services to Canadian business. OMNITEL’s recent business has grown to include designing and

deployment of private cloud environments to clients. OMNITEL’s current client is the Stark Industries, requested

that their aging IT physical servers to be retired and converted into a cost effective all in one virtual environment.

OMNITEL’s has hired KevTech as a consultant to assist in designing a project for Stark Industries to migrate their

physical servers to virtualize private cloud environment.

Stark Industries have a mix of servers running a variety of operating systems that include Windows 2008, Red Hat

4 and Red Hat 6. The servers include domain controllers, terminals, database, web and applications. Stark

Industries want the latest and greatest virtualization environment that the market has to offer and the solution is

to use VMware’s latest hyper convergence EVO: Rail by Dell.

Objective

The project will be divided into 3 phases. Phase 1 will assess the overall overview of the project that includes

detail of existing logical network topology of all physical components. Currently Start Industries does not have

any virtual server setup. Phase 2 will design a strategy using VMware Converter to migrate physical servers to

virtual machines. Phase 2 will utilize EVO: Rail baked in software like VMotion, VSphere DRS to load balance and

migrate VM servers within the virtual environment. Phase 2 will include backup strategy, create 5 defense in

depth failure scenarios replicating all VM to secondary DR site. Phase 3 will contain a build guide and step by

step instructions for VSphere build, P2V migration, backup and monitoring configuration and disaster recovery

replication.

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STARK INDUSTRIES Existing Network 01 Table 1 - Servers & Their Roles

Hostnames IP OS Storage CPU # CPU speed RAM (GB) Location Role

Flora 192.168.67.2 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 WHI Application server

Metis 192.168.67.3 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 WHI Application server

Hygiea 192.168.67.4 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 WHI SQL DB server

Parthenope 192.168.67.5 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 WHI Domain Controller/DNS Server

Victoria 192.168.67.6 RH6 5TB 2x 3Ghz 4 WHI SAN

Total Storage & Ram 4TB 36

Hostnames IP OS Storage CPU # CPU speed RAM Location Notes

Egeria 192.168.57.2 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 NV Application server

Irene 192.168.57.3 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 NV Application server

Eunomia 192.168.57.4 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 16 NV RDS App Server TTerminal Server

Psyche 192.168.57.5 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 16 NV RDS App Server TTerminal Server

Thetis 192.168.57.6 W2K8 250GB 4x 2Ghz 32 NV SQL DB server

Melpmeme 192.168.57.7 W2K8 250GB 4x 2Ghz 32 NV SQL DB server

Fortuna 192.168.57.8 W2K8 250GB 4x 2Ghz 32 NV SQL DB server

Massallia 192.168.57.9 RH4 250GB 2x 2Ghz 2 NV Web Server

Lutetia 192.168.57.10 RH4 250GB 2x 2Ghz 2 NV Web Server

Kalliope 192.168.57.11 RH6 5TB 2x 3Ghz 8 NV SAN

Thalia 192.168.57.12 RH6 5TB 2x 3Ghz 8 NV SAN

Themis 192.168.57.13 RH6 5TB 2x 3Ghz 8 NV SAN

Phocaea 192.168.57.14 W2K8 250GB 2x 3Ghz 8 NV Domain Controller/DNS Server

Proserpina 192.168.57.15 W2K8 250GB 2x 3Ghz 8 NV Domain Controller/DNS Server

Total Storage & Ram 18.75TB 188

Hostnames IP OS Storage CPU # CPU speed RAM Location Notes

Ceres 192.168.77.2 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 BUR Domain Controller/DNS Server

Pallas 192.168.77.3 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 BUR Application server

Juno 192.168.77.4 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 BUR Application server

Vesta 192.168.77.5 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 BUR DB server

Astraea 192.168.77.6 W2K8 500GB 4x 2Ghz 8 BUR DB server

Hebe 192.168.77.7 RH6 5TB 2x 3Ghz 4 BUR SAN

Iris 192.168.77.8 W2K3 250GB 2x 2Ghz 2 BUR Legacy app server

Total Storage & Ram 7.75TB 46

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STARK INDUSTRIES Exisiting Network 02 Table 2 - Network Equipments

Device Model Device Name IP Location Type

Cisco 2950 Distribution switch SW1-BUR 192.168.77.240 BUR 24 port 10/100

Cisco 2960 Core switch SW2-BUR 192.168.77.241 BUR 24 port GbE

Cisco 1841 router FW1-BUR 192.168.77.254 BUR router

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Public IP: 24.85.201.90

Cisco 2950 Distribution switch SW1-WHI 192.168.67.240 WHI 24 port 10/100

Cisco 2960 Core switch SW2-WHI 192.168.67.241 WHI 24 port GbE

Cisco 1841 router FW1-WHI 192.168.67.254 WHI router

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Public IP: 24.85.201.89

Cisco 2950 Distribution switch SW1-NV 192.168.57.240 NV 48 port 10/100

Cisco 2950 Distribution switch SW2-NV 192.168.57.241 NV 48 port 10/100

Cisco 2960 Core switch SW3-NV 192.168.57.242 NV 24 port GbE

Cisco 2960 Core switch SW4-NV 192.168.57.243 NV 24 port GbE

Cisco 1841 router FW1-NV 192.168.57.254 NV router

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Public IP: 24.85.201.88

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White Rock Physical Topology

Network:White rock facility have only 3 network devices and it include a core gigabit switch, a router and a distribution switch. All the network devices are from Cisco.

Storage:There is one physical SAN server running Red Hat 6 for the whole entire white rock facility

Servers:The domain controller is combined with the DNS server for authentication for active directory access and IP addressing. The rest of the servers are SQL database and 2 application servers.

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HygieaIP: 192.168.67.4OS: W2K8

FloraIP: 192.168.67.2OS: W2K8

MetisIP: 192.168.67.3OS: W2K8

ParthenopeIP: 192.168.67.5OS: W2K8

SW1-WHIIP: 192.168.67.240Cisco 24port 2950

SW2-WHIIP: 192.168.67.241Cisco 24port 2960

FW1-WHIIP: 192.168.67.254Public IP: 24.85.201.89Cisco router 1841

VictoriaIP: 192.168.67.6OS:RH6

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North Vancouver Physical Topology

Network:The network is divided into 3 segments. The front end contains 2 gigabit core Cisco switches that connects to the Cisco router. Each of the core switches connect to 1 domain controller/DNS server and 1 terminal RDS server. 2 core switches are used for redundancies. The other network segment is divided by a Cisco distribution switch for the web servers and application servers. The last segment contains 1 distribution Cisco switch along with database servers and SANs.

ServersServers include 2 domain controllers/DNS servers, 2 RDS terminal servers, 2 web servers, 2 application servers, 3 SQL database servers.

Storage:There are 3 physical SANs servers running Red Hat 6.

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GbE SW

10/100

10/100

SW04-NV

SW02-NV

SW01-NV

FW1-NV

Phocaea

Proserpina

Eunomia

Psyche

Massallia

Lutetia

Egeria

IreneIP: 192.168.57.240

IP: 192.168.57.241

IP: 192.168.57.243

Internal IP: 192.168.57.254Public IP: 24.85.201.88

IP: 192.168.57.14OS: W2K8

IP: 192.168.57.15OS: W2K8

IP: 192.168.57.4OS: W2K8

IP: 192.168.57.5OS: W2K8

IP: 192.168.57.9OS: RH4

IP: 192.168.57.10OS: RH4

IP: 192.168.57.2OS: W2K8

IP: 192.168.57.3OS: W2K8

ThetisIP: 192.168.57.6OS: W2K8

MelpmemeIP: 192.168.57.7OS: W2K8

FortunaIP: 192.168.57.8OS: W2K8

KalliopeIP: 192.168.57.11OS: RH6

ThaliaIP: 192.168.57.12OS: RH6

ThemisIP: 192.168.57.13OS: RH6

SW03-NVIP: 192.168.57.242

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STARK INDUSTRIES – Burnaby – Existing Physical Topology – Page 08

Site C Physical Topology

Network:The network consist of 1 core Cisco switch, 1 Cisco router/firewall and 1 distributed Cisco switch 10/100.

Servers:There are 1 legacy application server, 1 domain controller/DNS server, 2 application servers, 2 database servers.

Storage:There is 1 physical SAN server running Red Hat 6.

SW1-BURIP: 192.168.77.240Cisco24port 2950

SW2-BURIP: 192.168.77.241Cisco24port 2960

FW1-BURInternal IP: 192.168.77.241Public IP: 24.85.201.90Cisco router 1841

CeresIP: 192.168.77.2OS: W2K8

IrisIP: 192.168.77.8OS: W2K3

PallasIP: 192.168.77.3OS: W2K8

JunoIP: 192.168.77.4OS: W2K8

VestaIP: 192.168.77.5OS: W2K8

AstraeIP: 192.168.77.6OS: W2K8

HebeIP: 192.168.77.7OS: RH6

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STARK INDUSTRIES - North Vancouver – Information flow – Page 09

Massallia

www.stark.local

Lutetia

www.stark2..local

Thetis Melpmeme Fortuna

Application Servers Database Servers

Authentication

Terminals

Phocacea

Eunomia Psyche

Egeria Irene

Internet

VPN to BUR &

WHI Information flow

Note:The blue green arrows are for the VPN information flow and the blue arrows are for the public Internet information flow.

Public facing:There are 2 web servers in the DMZ that provide general public web services and also login authentication service for members access to the internal network.

Application servers:There are 2 application servers for both the public login and VPN login usage.

Databases:Database servers are use to for application server access.

SAN servers:SAN servers usage are shared both ways between VPN to Burnaby and White rock sites.

Authentication:There are 2 authenticator/DNS servers that provide authentication services for VPN connections from 2 other sites and from the Internet. VPN connection from the sister sites can use the terminal servers for remote desktop access of the North Vancouver network.

Proserpina

DMZ

SAN Servers

Kalliope Thalia Themis

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Hygiea

Application Servers

Database Server

Authentication

Parthenope

Flora Metis

VPN to NV & BUR Information flow


Application servers:There are 2 application servers for VPN login usage. The application contains an Internet browser that allows Internet access from within the network via a router/firewall.


SAN servers:SAN servers usage are shared both ways between VPN to Burnaby and White rock sites.

Authentication:The authenticator/DNS servers that provide authentication services for VPN connections from 2 other sites.

SAN Server

Victoria

Internet

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STARK INDUSTRIES – Burnaby – Information flow –

Astraea

Application Servers

Database Server

Authentication

Ceres

Pallas Juno

VPN to NV & WHI Information flow


Application servers:There are 2 application servers for VPN login usage. The application contains an Internet browser that allows Internet access from within the network via a router/firewall.

Legacy Application Server:The legacy application server shares the database servers and SAN connection. VPN access to the legacy application server is allowed.


SAN servers:SAN servers usage are shared both ways between VPN to North Vancouver and White rock sites.

Authentication:The authenticator/DNS servers that provide authentication services for VPN connections from 2 other sites.

SAN Server

HebeInternet

Vesta

Iris

Legacy App Server

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DELL VMWARE: EVO RAIL Hyper-Converged Overview

Stark Industries will be using the latest and greatest, Dell VMWARE: EVO RAIL appliances for their physical servers transformation to virtualized servers. Dell EVO RAIL was chosen to be the core technology for Stark Industries was because of the reliability and fault tolerance capabilities. The hardware of one appliance of EVO RAIL consists of 4 ESXi hosts in a single appliance that enables resiliency for hardware failures and maintenance, 2 fully redundant power supplies, 2 redundant 10GbE NIC ports per node for all communication, ESXi boot device, HDDs and SSDs are all enterprise-grade and fault-tolerant Virtual SAN datastore with a combined capacity of 13.1TB per appliance. With 13.1TB of storage, EVO RAIL can have 100 server VMs running at the same time. Each node of an EVO RAIL appliance core hardware contains 2x Intel E5-2620 v2 six-core CPUs, 192GB RAM, 2x 10GbE NIC ports, 1x 1GbE IPMI port for remote (out of band) management and 14.4TB of storage capacity combined with 1.6TB of flash capacity used by VSAN for storage acceleration services. Setup of EVO RAIL out of the box takes only 15 minutes of your previous time. EVO RAIL’s powerful hardware computing power is combined with the following softwares: Vmware ESXi v5.5, Vmware vCenter Server Appliance v5.5, Vmware Log Insight, Vmware EVO: Rail Engine that works seamlessly and efficiently together in harmony. EVO-Rail can scale out to a maximum of 4 appliances for a total of 16 ESXi hosts and one Virtual SAN datastore, backed by a single vCenter Server. Four EVO rail will allow customers to run 400 VM servers. EVO:Rail will redefine the way datacenters are deployed. JP Morgan stated “This could be an iPhone moment for enterprise use of cloud computing”. (https://www.vmguru.com/2014/10/vmware-evorail-datacenter-deployment-evolution-style-know/). EVO RAIL comes with 3 year phone and in-field hardware and software support & services (SnS).

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172.20.0.0/12 3 EVO Rail Appliances Cluster C White Rock

Hostnames IP VLAN ID Type Location

STARK-WHI-APP01 172.20.1.1 10 EVO Rail WHI

STARK-WHI-APP02 172.20.1.2 10 EVO Rail WHI

STARK-WHI-DB01 172.20.2.1 20 EVO Rail WHI

STARK-WHI-DC01 172.20.3.1 30 EVO Rail WHI

STAKR-WHI-DC02 172.20.3.2 30 EVO Rail WHI

STARK-WHI-EXSAN01 172.20.4.1 40 Dell Powervault MD3800i SAN WHI

ESXI 1 Appliance 1 172.20.5.1 0 EVO Rail WHI












vMotion 1 172.20.6.1 50 EVO Rail WHI












VSAN 1 172.20.7.13 60 EVO Rail WHI












vCenter Server 172.20.5.200 0 EVO Rail WHI

Client

Laptop/Workstation 172.20.5.210 NA EVO Rail WHI

STARK-WHI-SW01 172.20.8.252 70 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch WHI

STARK-WHI-SW02 172.20.8.251 70 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch WHI

STARK-WHI-FW01 172.20.8.250 70 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall WHI

24.85.201.90 Public IP WHI

255.254.0.0 Subnet WHI

STARK-WHI-FW02 172.20.8.249 70 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall WHI

24.85.201.80 Public IP WHI

255.254.0.0 Subnet WHI

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172.22.0.0/12 3 EVO Rail Appliances Cluster A North Vancouver


STARK-NV-APP01 172.22.8.1 11 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-APP02 172.22.8.2 11 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-TER01 172.22.9.1 22 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-TER02 172.22.9.2 22 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-DB01 172.22.10.1 33 EVO Rail NV



STARK-NV-WEB01 172.22.11.1 44 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-WEB02 172.22.11.2 44 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-DC01 172.22.12.1 55 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-DC02 172.22.12.2 55 EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-EXSAN01 172.22.16.1 45 Dell Powervault MD3800i SANNV

ESXI 1 Appliance 1 172.22.13.1 123 EVO Rail NV












vMotion 1 172.22.14.1 2 EVO Rail NV












VSAN 1 172.22.14.13 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 2 172.22.14.14 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 3 172.22.14.15 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 4 172.22.14.16 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 5 172.22.14.17 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 6 172.22.14.18 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 7 172.22.14.19 3 EVO Rail NV

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VSAN 8 172.22.14.20 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 9 172.22.14.21 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 10 172.22.14.22 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 11 172.22.14.23 3 EVO Rail NV

VSAN 12 172.22.14.24 3 EVO Rail NV

vCenter Server 172.22.13.200 1 EVO Rail NV

Client

Laptop/Workstation 172.22.13.210 NA EVO Rail NV

STARK-NV-SW01 172.22.15.252 77 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch NV

STARK-NV-SW02 172.22.15.251 77 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch NV

STARK-NV-FW01 172.22.15.250 77 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall NV

24.85.201.85 Public IP NV

255.254.0.0 Subnet NV

STARK-NV-FW02 172.22.15.249 77 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall NV

24.85.201.95 Public IP NV

255.254.0.0 Subnet NV

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172.21.0.0/12 3 EVO Rail Appliances Cluster B Burnaby


STARK-BUR-DC01 172.21.1.1 111 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-DC02 172.21.1.2 111 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-APP01 172.21.2.1 112 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-APP02 172.21.2.2 112 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-DB01 172.21.3.1 113 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-DB02 172.21.3.2 113 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-LAPP01 172.21.4.1 114 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-EXSAN01 172.21.5.1 66 Dell Powervault MD3800i SANBUR

ESXI 1 Appliance 1 172.21.16.1 4 EVO Rail BUR












vMotion 1 172.21.17.1 5 EVO Rail BUR












VSAN 1 172.21.18.1 6 EVO Rail BUR











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vCenter Server 172.21.16.200 4 EVO Rail BUR

Client

Laptop/Workstation

172.21.16.210 4 EVO Rail BUR

STARK-BUR-SW01 172.21.19.252 88 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch BUR

STARK-BUR-SW02 172.22.19.251 88 Cisco 4900M 10 GbE Switch BUR

STARK-BUR-FW01 172.22.192.250 88 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall BUR

24.85.201.100 Public IP BUR

255.254.0.0 Subnet BUR

STARK-BUR-FW02 172.22.192.249 88 Internal IP Dell Sonic Wall Firewall BUR

24.85.201.150 Public IP BUR

255.254.0.0 Subnet BUR

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PWR-C49-300AC

100-240 VAC

4.2 A

50-60 Hz

Input

OK

Output

OK

PWR-C49-300AC

100-240 VAC

4.2 A

50-60 Hz

Input

OK

Output

OK

WS-X4991

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

Catalyst 4948-10GE

PS1

PS2

FAN

STATUS MGT

X2-2

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CON

X2-1

PWR-C49-300AC

100-240 VAC

4.2 A

50-60 Hz

Input

OK

Output

OK

PWR-C49-300AC

100-240 VAC

4.2 A

50-60 Hz

Input

OK

Output

OK

WS-X4991

Catalyst 4948-10GE

PS1

PS2

FAN

STATUS MGT

X2-2

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CON

X2-1

Router Link

Linking 2 Switches

The rest of the colored lines are the link from Evo Rails to TOR 10

Gigabit Switches

3 Dell Evo Rail Appliances Rear

3 Dell Evo Rail Appliance Front

2 Cisco 4948 Switch Front

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1234

iDRAC

1100W

1100W

1100W

1100W

6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 16 17

Dell Powervault MD3800i SAN

VSAN Link

Catalyst 4948-10GE

PS1

PS2

FAN

STATUSMGT

X2-2

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X2-1

Catalyst 4948-10GE

PS1

PS2

FAN

STATUSMGT

X2-2

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X2-1

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

ID 21

Top: 2 Cisco 4948 Switch RearBottom: Dell Power Sonic Firewall/Router

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White Rock Physical Topology

Network:There will be 2 Cisco 4900M 24 ports 10GbE switch for connection the 3 Evol Rails and 40 ports for the 10/100/100 connections. There are also 2 Dell Power Sonic firewall/router that being used for redundancy to connect to the outside world and other sister sites. Using Class B private IP address, subnet mask of 255.255.0.0

ServersVirtualized servers inside the 3 Evo Rail hyper convergence appliances. The 3 Evo Rail contains a total of 4 servers which is shown on the virtual diagram page.

Storage:Need a total of 4TB for White Rock site and replication data for 2 other sites so a total of 3 Evo Rails are required. 1 Evo Rail appliance combined VSAN storage is 13.1TB. 1 external Dell PowerEdge R920 SAN with 28.8TB storage is used for backup purposes.

STARK-WHI-EV01vCenter IP: 172.20.5.200OS: vSphere Enterprise Plus

STARK-WHI-SW01IP: 172.20.8.252Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-WHI-SW02IP: 172.20.8.251Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-WHI-FW01Internal IP: 172.20.8.250Public IP: 24.85.201.90Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

STARK-WHI-EXSAN01IP: 172.20.4.1Dell Powervault MD3800i OS: ESXi 5.5

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STARK-WHI-FW02Internal IP: 172.20.8.249Public IP: 24.85.201.80Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

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North Vancouver Physical Topology



Storage:Need a total of 18.75TB for North Vancouver site and replication data for 2 other sites so a total of 3 Evo Rails are required. 1 Evo Rail appliance combined with VSAN storage is 13.1TB. 1 external Dell PowerEdge R920 SAN with 28.8TB storage is used for backup purposes.

STARK-NV-EV01vCenter IP: 172.22.13.200OS: vSphere Enterprise Plus

STARK-NV-EV02IP: 172.22.13.200OS: vSphere Enterprise Plus

STARK-NV-EXSAN01IP: 172.22.16.1Dell Powervault MD3800i OS: ESXi 5.5

STARK-NV-SW02IP: 172.22.15.251Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-NV-SW01IP: 172.22.15.252Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-NV-FW01Internal IP: 172.22.15.250Public IP: 24.85.201.85Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

STARK-NV-FW02Internal IP: 172.22.15.249Public IP: 24.85.201.95Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

STARK-NV-EV03IP: 172.22.13.200OS: vSphere Enterprise Plus

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Burnaby Physical Topology



Storage:Need a total of 7.75TB for Burnaby site and replication data for 2 other sites so a total of 3 Evo Rails are required. 1 Evo Rail appliance combined VSAN storage is 13.1TB. 1 external Dell PowerEdge R920 SAN with 28.8TB storage is used for backup purposes.

STARK-BUR-EV01IP: 172.21.16.200OS: vSphere Enterprise Plus

STARK-BUR-SW01IP: 172.21.19.252Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-BUR-SW02IP: 172.22.19.251Cisco 4900M 24 port 10GbE switch

STARK-BUR-FW02Internal IP: 172.22.192.249Public IP: 24.85.201.150Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

STARK-BUR-FW01Internal IP: 172.22.192.250Public IP: 24.85.201.100Dell Sonic Wall router/firewall

STARK-BUR-EXSAN01IP: 172.21.5.1Dell Powervault MD3800i OS: ESXi 5.5



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STARK-WHI-APP01W2K8

IP: 172.20.1.1

STARK-WHI-APP02W2K8

IP: 172.20.1.2

VLAN ID: 10

VSWITCH0

STARK-WHI-DB01W2K8

IP: 172.20.2.1

VLAN ID: 20

STARK-WHI-DC01W2K8

IP: 172.20.3.1

STARK-WHI-DC02W2K8

IP: 172.20.3.2

VLAN ID: 30

vmnic0vmnic1

LAN NETWORK

Shared VSAN

3 Evo Rail Appliances

White Rock Location

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VSWITCH0

vmnic0vmnic1

LAN NETWORK

Shared VSAN


North Vancouver Location

STARK-WHI-DC01W2K8

IP: 172.22.12.1

STARK-WHI-DC02W2K8

IP: 172.22.12.2

VLAN ID: 55

STARK-WHI-APP01W2K8

IP: 172.22.8.1

STARK-WHI-APP02W2K8

IP: 172.22.8.2

VLAN ID: 11

STARK-WHI-TER01W2K8

IP: 172.22.9.1

STARK-WHI-TER02W2K8

IP: 172.22.9.2

VLAN ID: 22

STARK-WHI-WED01W2K8

IP: 172.22.11.1

STARK-WHI-WEB02W2K8

IP: 172.22.11.2

VLAN ID: 44

STARK-WHI-DB01

W2K8IP:

172.22.10.1

STARK-WHI-DB02

W2K8IP:

172.22.10.2

VLAN ID: 33

STARK-WHI-DB03

W2K8IP:

172.22.10.3

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STARK-WHI-DC01W2K8

IP: 172.21.1.1

STARK-WHI-DC02W2K8

IP: 172.21.1.2

STARK-WHI-APP01W2K8

IP: 172.21.2.1

STARK-WHI-APP02W2K8

IP: 172.22.2.2

VLAN ID: 112

VSWITCH0

STARK-WHI-LAPP01W2K8

IP: 172.21.4.1

VLAN ID: 114

vmnic0vmnic1

LAN NETWORK

Shared VSAN


Burnaby Location

VLAN ID: 111

STARK-WHI-DB01W2K8

IP: 172.21.3.1

STARK-WHI-DB02W2K8

IP: 172.21.3.2

VLAN ID: 113

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NetworkDestination

3 Evo Rail

Appliances in

a cluster

Source

Physical

Server

Vmware

Converter

Boot CD

Source

Volumes Volumes

Cold Conversion

Physical Server to

Virtual Server

Migration

Cold Conversion Strategy For

All 3 Site Locations

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Whiterock

North Vancouver

Burnaby

Contains replicated sites of North

Vancouver and Burnaby

Contains replicated sites of White Rock

and Burnaby

Contains replicated sites of White Rock

and North Vancouver

Site Replication

Through vSphere Replication, each site contains 2 different replicated sites. For example, North Vancouver site will contain replicated sites of White Rock and Burnaby. The same goes for White Rock and Burnaby sites. This strategy will enhance the redundancy of each site if disaster strikes. vSphere Replication will synchronize the changes of the VMs, which will improve efficiency and reduces network utilization. vSphere Replication has the option to do network isolation and compression to help secure replicated data and further reduce network bandwidth consumption. Start Industries will use the maximum number of recovery points of 24 allowed by vSphere Replication to maximize the redundancy (i.e. four recovery points over the last 6 days). The frequency of replication is determined by the RPO that was configured for the virtual machine. A lower RPO requires more frequent replication. The transmissions of the changes of data are referred to as “lightweight delta syncs”.

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Backup Strategy

Dell VMware Evo Rail vSphere Enterprise Plus contains vStorage APIs for Data Protection also know as VADP. VADP is the next generation of Vmware’s data protection framework that was introduced in vSphere 4.0 that enables backup products to do centralized, efficient, off-host LAN free backup of vSphere virtual machines. VADP can backup vSphere virtual machines from a central backup server or virtual machine without backup agents or requiring backup processing to be done inside each guest virtual machine on the ESXi host. This method of backup functionality reduces the stress of processing power on the ESXi host and also reduces the costs by allowing each ESXi host to run more virtual machines.

VADP uses snapshot capabilities to enable backup across SAN without requiring downtime for virtual machines. As a result, backups can be performed without disrupting the ESXi hosts at any time of the day. Stark Industries will backup all its servers on a weekly basis using snapshots and saved the snapshots onto an external Dell PowerEdge R920 SAN with storage capacity of 28.8TB. In addition, SQL database servers data will be backup using full backup every Friday at 11pm onto the external Dell SAN. Incremental backup every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 11pm. Backup data retention period on the Dell SAN will depend on the amount of available disk space available and how critical the data is. RTOs (Recovery time objectives) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) can be setup in the VADP pending on company RTO and RPO policy.

Network Monitoring

Evo Rail has the capability of overall system monitoring and virtual machines monitoring baked into its system. Evo Rail offers live usage statistics and able to streamline log collections, licensing, software updates and offers language choice for globalization. Evo Rail also provides notifications and tracks tasks. Under the Log Collection option, it allows customers to generate a log bundle that combines diagnostic information for vCenter Server, ESXi and Evo Rail. The log bundles can be uploaded to technical support as part of a Support Request (SR). Evo Rail also has vRealize Log baked into the system for monitoring. PRTG will be used for different locations network monitoring.

5 Potential Points Of Failure

1. Domain controller VM failure in the Evo Rail. Stark Industries have 2 domain controller running at all times in all 3 locations. If 1 domain controller fails, there is the second one running. If both fails we have vSphere Vmotion that will kick in and restart the VM.2. Worst case scenario, there is a fire or some natural disaster in one of the locations, Stark Industries can recover and restart the operations by recovering the whole site through the 2 replicated sites. Each site is replicated into 2 different sites to provide redundancy.3. If one of the switches or routers/firewalls fails, Stark Industries have 2 switches and 2 routers/fireware in each location for back up. 4. Each EVO Rail appliances have 2 redundant power supplies, so if one fails, the other one will kick in.5. Each EVO Rail appliances contain 4 node form factor that combines compute, networking and storage resources that can be easily replaced when one fails.

Monitoring Threshold

-If CPU utilization is >85%, vSphere will send notification and activate load balancing DRS to other nodes within the 12 nodes.-If the fire alarm goes off, the administrator and other executives will be alerted through text message and the fire department will be notified. -If the bandwidth utilization is <30%, no action is required. If the bandwidth utilization is 40-50%, then an alert will be activated and if utilization is >60 the vSphere DRS will load balancing traffic

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RAID 6

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