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You are an administrator for the CB Chicken

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You are an administrator for the CB Chicken. The entity has two (2) large sites. The corporate office is in Spanish Town St Catherine and the manufacturing site is Old Harbor. In addition, the CB Group has five (5) smaller sites.

At the Corporate site, you currently have eight (8) physical servers that host approximately one hundred twenty (120) virtual machines (computers). The servers are needed to host email, various databases, file services, print services, and a point-of sales-application. The virtual machines are stored on a centrally located storage area network (SAN) that has multiple power supplies, and use a redundant array of independent disks (RAID).

Over the last three (3) years, you have had two (2) power failures that caused the servers to go down at the corporate office. Recently, during one (1) of these incidents, files on one (1) of the servers were corrupted. It was later discovered that the backup could only partially restore the data files, but could not restore the server itself.

The servers must remain available and reliable. As the administrator, you must ensure that you can recover from a failure or problem quickly with minimum loss.

Requirement

Develop a continuity plan/disaster recovery plan for CB Chicken in which you address the following:

1. Suggest an approach that provides redundancy (failover) for all mission critical functions in the event of a disaster including power failure. Consider the following in your approach: Essential Infrastructure; Email; Database; File

Services; Print Services; Point-of-Sale Applications; Power Redundancy

Solutions.

2. Identify the changes that should be made to the backup procedures in order to address the problem with the server backups.

3. Outline the necessary actions that Server Administrators must verify for proper operation of servers in the event of a failover.

4. Provide a plan for returning all services back to the primary systems once the crisis has passed.

5. Examine the pros and cons of moving part of the data center to the Old Harbor office and housing it there on a permanent basis. Provide your recommendation for the stated action

6. Identify a cloud category service to CB Chicken (IaaS, SaaS, or PaaS) and explain how you came to that conclusion and how the company may benefit.

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Include appropriate cover page

2. There should be a table of contents and page numbering

4. Appropriate headings should be used to properly sectionalize your paper

5. Minimum expected length of the paper is six (6) pages.

6. APA (7th edition) formatting must be used throughout the article, as well as for in-text citation and referencing

7. There should be no more than 20% similarity in the body of the document (confirmed by Turnitin).