Newtork Installation

Installing Windows Servers

Lyris M. Garcia

POS 421 Windows Server 2008

January 21, 2014

Professor Kevin Judge

Installing Windows Servers

Installing or upgrading your Windows server can be simple or can be considered difficult. Some people may even just decide to do it themselves or hire a professional. Unfortunately, in these days of financial strain Kudler Fine foods decided to have a combination of friend, employees and a local computer store to design and construct their store network.

Kudler is looking to collect and track personal data from their customers but are concerned about liability and security. The areas of concern are Network Protocols, system response time, Network topology, Data Integrity and Security. The requestor is Yvonne Reynolds according to Yvonne the upgrade is detrimental to the success of the company and its patrons.

There are three network diagrams for Kudler Fine Foods, the first is an overall view of the network that conjoins all three stores by using a T3 dedicated line WAN interconnecting all three stores together. La Jolla Store network is built around a 100baseT environment. The main server for the company is an IBM blade server system C3000 running UNIX as its OS. This server also runs the corporate SAP ERP SW, has all the print/file services, the network services, email, storage control and the web.

This server is backed up with a 10TB NAS. A 5KVA APD UPS provides power backup for the entire backbone computer system at La Jolla. The retail store operations utilize NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS terminals and systems. The nineteen (at present count) corporate management and other admin personnel all utilize Dell Vostro computers. These administration personnel also share 3 HP networked printers. The communications into and out of La Jolla is ported through 2 Cisco routers and firewalls. There is the inter-store dedicated network and a separate 25Mbps link to the Ethernet. The La Jolla installation...