Question Details

You have been tasked to design the buildout of a brand-new datacenter that will be used for remotely hosting multiple enterprise environments.  This datacenter will house 3 different types of customers:

·         Larges Customers - approx. 5000 users

·         Medium Customers - approx. 1500 users

·         Small Customers - approx. 100 users

This datacenter will provide the virtualization hardware that customers will leverage to host their company infrastructures remotely.

You will also provide external IPs for each customers.

Large customers will require 10 external IPs, medium customers - 5 external IPs, and small customers - 2 external IPs.

The initial forecasting requires you to have the infrastructure to meet the following needs:

·           50 large customers

·         100 medium customers

·         250 small customers

Your task is to design the datacenter.  This should include considerations for cooling, power consumption, ISP connections and reliability, rack layouts for each type of customer, the hardware that will be used in each rack and network configuration for each type of customers. Considerations should also be factored in for data preservation, security, and supportability for each virtualized environment.