Cloud Data Center – Site Survey check list
The following is a list of information about the existing data center
- List of servers to be deployed (with the following attributes)
- Server role
- Operating system
- Installed applications / services
- Part of cluster (type)
- Hardware / Hypervisor
- Storage size
- CPU
- RAM
- Physical attached hardware and peripherals (tokens, keys, ect)
- Virtualization technology in use
- Services operated by your current data center (Mail, ERP, CRM, BI, Portal, Data bases, PBX, etc.)
- Network topology
- Security devices
- Firewalls
- VPN
- Service consumption
- RDP / Citrix / Other terminal technologies
- Web applications
- Client / Server apps
Future Cloud Data Center Planning
- Improvements / new services
- Required throughput
- Backup requirements
- Regulations requirements
- Redundancy requirements
- High availability requirements
- Scalability requirements
- Geographic distribution
- DRP requirements