Cmgt 410 / Week 5 Team Report

Hardware Procurement & Installation Project

CMGT 410

Project Definition/Scope

Based on the 3-day JAD session to define the best solution for this initiative, the project scope has been defined as providing storage devices that will house file data that can transfer expeditiously over the network and to also provide storage devices that will house transitionally accessed data that will transport with high-speed and allow for block-level access to (multiple hard drives) email, \database and possible high usage files servers, as the company expands. The first device to be solution will be the NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device that will be designed as an open sourced, self-contained solution providing file sharing options over the network and allow remote computers to requests a portion of an abstract file rather than a disk block unlike the SAN, where transitioned accessed data will be factored. This NAS option will allow the business to increase the availability of data by using a clustering design and this NAS solution will provide the business both storage and a file system.

This NAS solution will perform at its highest potential due the précised tuning for the file serving capability that would not otherwise be executed on any other server that executes other processes and having optimal performing cache memory provisioned on each storage device. Since the NAS infrastructure is a generalized hardware component, not much customization is needed to install this equipment, which will cut cost and allow our project team to expedite the timeline for installation of this infrastructure. The second solution defined is the SAN Storage (Storage Area Network) devices that will be provisioned for the businesses to access block-level data from various hard drive resources such as email servers, databases and high usage files servers. This solution will allow storage capacity utilization to increase and consolidate proprietary information to be stored onto...