The course project takes a problembased, casebased approach to learning the course material by putting you into the role of a consultant who will provide solutions to a fictitious customer.
The project is broken down into component assignments in each unit. You will receive feedback on each component and use that feedback to update your designs for the final project submission. This feedback will include evaluation of how well you have articulated a design that is clearly and directly tied to business needs and user requirements.
You will design a Windowsbased network infrastructure for Happy Health Systems (HHS), described in the scenario below. As you work on the project, focus on the main concepts that have been presented each week. Using this information, choose from similar technologies and services to create a design that best fits the needs of the scenario, business needs, and user requirements. In your project components, discuss alternatives for your particular design choices, make design decisions about network components, and then implement your selected alternatives in your final design.
Scenario
Your consulting company has been hired by the CIO of HHS to design a Windowsbased network infrastructure for the organization. You will create a virtual infrastructure proposal for HHS that will include strategies for ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and a plan for virtual migration.
About Happy Health Systems
HHS is a health care organization consisting of four hospitals, 10 clinics, a physicians' practice, and a research facility. The facilities cover a threestate area for which a central administration infrastructure is in place. The main administration hub for HHS is located at one of its hospitals, and each location has its own tiered support team. The main hub is administered by a single set of senior managers who all report to the same board of directors.
HHS currently connects a few remote locations, but it is not satisfied with the limited capability and lack of security of these locations.
Senior management is hoping for you to be able to build a new virtualization infrastructure within the current network infrastructure. You have also been asked to make virtual their main clinical electronic medical record (EMR) application system as part of this project.
A summary of usage follows:
The number of users at each of the hospitals averages 2,000. The number of users at each of the clinics averages 100.
The physicians' practice includes 45 physicians, 300 residents, and 200 medical students at any given time.
The research facility includes 35 users.
HHS has chosen to implement a common EMR system that will be used throughout their organization by all of the facilities under its umbrella. This EMR system is the main clinical system in use throughout the organization with the exception of the radiology and lab systems. The applications are used for the maintenance of electronic medical records as follows:
EPIC Electronic Health Record: The main clinical system used all facilities except radiology and lab. Phillips ISite Radiology System: The main
EMR system used at radiology facilities.
Cerner Pathnet Laboratory Solution: The main EMR system used at the lab facilities.
The following applications are issued to all users throughout HHS in addition to the EMR system:
MS Exchange email.
Microsoft Office Suite.
PeopleSoft ERP (finance, supply chain, and HR and payroll modules). Symantec Security Suite.
Spybot Search and Destroy.
Each site separately has a 1GB ethernet fiber backbone and the network segments from the core switches to desktop use fiber as well.
You have been asked to propose a virtualization infrastructure that will support the implementation of this system. You are also asked to virtualized the main clinical EMR application.
Your solution must address these specific needs, in addition to the business needs and user requirements:
Security. Availability. Reliability. Manageability. Scalability.
Supportability.
Project Objectives
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
1. Create a project scope document that details appropriate business requirements, IT goals, and project parameters for the given scenario.
2. Create a physical design and a logical design that accurately represent an organization's business and user needs, using design diagrams and a written analysis that is comprehensive and appropriately meets the organization's needs.
3. Evaluate a physical and logical design, applying improvements to better meet business and user Windows networking needs.
4. Design a maintenance and monitoring strategy that accurately represents business needs, using a detailed written analysis.
5. Design a security strategy that accurately represents business Windows and networking needs.
6. Integrate routing and remote services into a Windows network design.
7. Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for resources and citations and creates a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.
Physical Design and Addressing Strategy
Provide a physical design for HHS. Using any additional resources you find helpful, create a physical design and IP addressing strategy for your new network infrastructure. Analyze and design a network topology that displays basic server placement and segmentation to support a reliable network.
As part of this redesign, you are asked to evaluate the existing infrastructure and make any and all improvements you believe are appropriate to improve the cost and efficiency of managing the network.
To prepare for this assignment, do the following:
Complete the required LabSim labs for this week.
Research this topic and include at least three references from articles, books, or Web sites to support your paper.
Your completed design should include the following:
Design a physical topology that is appropriate for the organization. Your discussion and design should correlate with the organization description that you provided last week.
Create a diagram that displays a site plan from a physical design perspective, including design components related to topology, device selection, and placement choices.
Write an analysis of your physical design, providing appropriate rationale for the chosen topology and device placement.
Design an IPv4 strategy that represents the new architecture; include decisions relative to subnetting, class, and type of addresses used.
Analyze a strategy for IP addressing and subnetting that is appropriate for HHS. Design an IPv6 scheme using your IPv4 strategy and apply it to your network. Compare and contrast IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting.
Describe IP configuration steps for Windows Server 2012 and HHS, including any special considerations or circumstances that must be addressed.
Describe how the concepts and activities presented in the labs for this week supported your addressing strategy.
DHCP and DNS Strategy
For this assignment, use any additional resources you find helpful to provide a DHCP and DNS strategy for the HHS network infrastructure.
The main goal for this assignment is to define your logical strategy for expanding upon your existing WAN
design. You are creating a workable WAN network for HHS that includes DHCP and DNS servers.
Your logical plan should involve at least two separate locations. A discussion of the strategies and techniques that you would apply in adding upon your existing WAN should be included along with a network diagram of your newly proposed WAN network.
To prepare for this assignment, do the following:
Complete the required LabSim labs for this week.
Research this topic and include at least three references from articles, books, or Web sites to support your paper.
Your completed plan should include the following:
Create a DHCP and DNS plan that is appropriate for the organization. Your discussion and design should correlate with the organization description that you provided last week.
Design a DHCP server topology that is appropriate for the organization. Your discussion and design should correlate with the organization description that you provided last week.
Write an analysis of your DHCP server topology design, providing appropriate rationale for the chosen topology and device placement.
Design a DNS server topology that is appropriate for the organization. Your discussion and design should correlate with the organization description that you provided last week.
Write an analysis of your DNS server topology design, providing appropriate rationale for the chosen topology and device placement.
Describe an appropriate DHCP strategy to support HHS's WAN network infrastructure that includes scope, exclusions, and lease.
Design an appropriate DNS naming strategy to support HHS's WAN network infrastructure that includes relative DNS naming schemes.
Describe DHCP configuration steps for Windows Server 2012 and HHS, including any special considerations or circumstances that must be addressed.
Describe DNS configuration steps for Windows Server 2012 and HHS, including any special considerations or circumstances that must be addressed.
Describe how the concepts and activities presented in the labs for this week supported your plan for high availability.