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Case Study: 3
Northwind Traders
Overview
Northwind Traders is an IT services and hosting provider.
Northwind Traders has two main data centers in North America. The data centers are located
in the same city. The data centers connect to each other by using high-bandwidth, low-latency
WAN links. Each data center connects directly to the Internet.
Northwind Traders also has a remote office in Asia that connects to both of the North
American data centers by using a WAN link. The Asian office has 30 multipurpose servers.
Each North American data center contains two separate network segments. One network
segment is used to host the internal servers of Northwind Traders. The other network segment
is used for the hosted customer environments.
Existing Environment
Active Directory
The network contains an Active Directory forest named northwindtraders.com. The forest
contains a single domain. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.
Server Environment
The network has the following technologies deployed:
• Service Provider Foundation
• Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
• System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
• An Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
cluster
• An Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) enterprise
certification authority (CA)
All newly deployed servers will include the following components:
• Dual 10-GbE Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)-capable
network adapters
• Dual 1-GbE network adapters
• 128 GB of RAM
Requirements
Business Goals
Northwind Traders will provide hosting services to two customers named Customer1 and
Customer2. The network of each customer is configured as shown in the following table.
Planned Changes
Northwind Traders plans to implement the following changes:
• Deploy System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
• Deploy Windows Server 2012 R2 iSCSI and SMB-based
storage.
• Implement Hyper-V Recovery Manager to protect virtual
machines.
• Deploy a certificate revocation list (CRL) distribution point
(CDP) on the internal network.
• For Customer 1, install server authentication certificates issued
by the CA of Northwind Traders on the virtual machine in the hosting
networks.
General Requirements
Northwind Traders identifies the following requirements:
• Storage traffic must use dedicated adapters.
• All storage and network traffic must be load balanced.
• The amount of network traffic between the internal network
and the hosting network must be minimized.
• The publication of CRLs to CDPs must be automatic.
• Each customer must use dedicated Hyper-V hosts.
• Administrative effort must be minimized, whenever possible.
• All servers and networks must be monitored by using
Operations Manager.
• Anonymous access to internal file shares from the hosting
network must be prohibited.
• All Hyper-V hosts must use Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)
shared storage to host virtual machines.
• All Hyper-V storage and network traffic must remain available
if single network adapter fails.
• The Hyper-V hosts connected to the SMB-based storage must
be able to make use of the RDMA technology.
• The number of servers and ports in the hosting environment to
which the customer has access must be minimized.
Customer1 Requirements
Northwind Traders identifies the following requirements for Customer1:
• Customer1 must use SMB-based storage exclusively.
• Customer1 must use App Controller to manage hosted virtual
machines.
• The virtual machines of Customer1 must be recoverable if a
single data center fails.
• Customer1 must be able to delegate self-service roles in its
hosted environment to its users.
• Customer1 must be able to check for the revocation of
certificates issued by the CA of Northwind Traders.
• The users of Customer1 must be able to obtain use licenses for
documents protected by the AD RMS of Northwind Traders.
• Certificates issued to the virtual machines of Customer1 that
reside on the hosted networks must be renewed automatically.
Customer2 Requirements
Northwind Traders identifies the following requirements for Customer2:
• Customer2 must use iSCSI-based storage exclusively.
• All of the virtual machines of Customer2 must be migrated by
using a SAN transfer.
• None of the metadata from the virtual machines of Customer2
must be stored in Windows Azure.
• The network configuration of the Hyper-V hosts for Customer2
must be controlled by using logical switches.
• The only VMM network port profiles and classifications
allowed by Customer2 must be low-bandwidth, medium-bandwidth, or
high-bandwidth.
• The users at Northwind Traders must be able to obtain use
licenses for documents protected by the AD RMS cluster of
Customer2. Customer2 plans to decommission its AD RMS cluster
during the next year.
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You need to recommend a monitoring solution for Northwind Traders.
What is the best approach to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal.
Select the BEST answer.
A.
Three Operations Manager management servers and two Operations Manager gateway servers
B.
One Operations Manager management server
C.
Two Operations Manager management servers and three Operations Manager gateway servers
D.
Five Operations Manager management servers
I’m not sure about C. Gateway servers are for management of machines in untrusted domains, so why would you need three of them?
A makes more sense to me: one management server in each datacenter, one in the Asia location, and gateway servers for each customer.
I agree Dave.
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230741(v=sc.12).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh230684.aspx
Gateway servers are indeed used to monitor untrusted or external domains.
So it would be logical to have 3 management servers (Datacenter 1, Datacenter 2 and the Asia location) and 2 gateways for the seperated network segments for the customers.
Only Customer1 has a requirement for redundancy at the datacenter level “The virtual machines of Customer1 must be recoverable if a single data center fails”.
Perhaps Customer2 is only in one datacenter? This statement might also suggest that, seems that all the VMs are on the same SAN: “All of the virtual machines of Customer2 must be migrated by using a SAN transfer”.
If so Customer2 only needs 1 gateway, but Customer1 has kit in both datacenters and needs a gateway in each. Then have 1 SCOM server in each datacenter and not one in Asia, no customer kit there and only a few servers. I don’t think it’s clear but I’d probably go for C.