The audit report summarizes the findings of an IT infrastructure audit at Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group (NALG). It assessed NALG's VMware environment, including their network, storage, and virtualization implementation. Key findings include the ESXi hosts not having RAID configured, memory usage exceeding 50%, a flat network design, improper virtual switch configuration, and the backup server and storage nearing capacity limits. The report recommends upgrading RAM, reconfiguring the VMware cluster with RAID-1, designing a new network with multiple VLANs, improving backups, and better utilizing storage. An action plan is provided to address each finding.
The audit report summarizes the findings of an IT infrastructure audit at Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group (NALG). It assessed NALG's VMware environment, including their network, storage, and virtualization implementation. Key findings include the ESXi hosts not having RAID configured, memory usage exceeding 50%, a flat network design, improper virtual switch configuration, and the backup server and storage nearing capacity limits. The report recommends upgrading RAM, reconfiguring the VMware cluster with RAID-1, designing a new network with multiple VLANs, improving backups, and better utilizing storage. An action plan is provided to address each finding.
The audit report summarizes the findings of an IT infrastructure audit at Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group (NALG). It assessed NALG's VMware environment, including their network, storage, and virtualization implementation. Key findings include the ESXi hosts not having RAID configured, memory usage exceeding 50%, a flat network design, improper virtual switch configuration, and the backup server and storage nearing capacity limits. The report recommends upgrading RAM, reconfiguring the VMware cluster with RAID-1, designing a new network with multiple VLANs, improving backups, and better utilizing storage. An action plan is provided to address each finding.
The audit report summarizes the findings of an IT infrastructure audit at Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group (NALG). It assessed NALG's VMware environment, including their network, storage, and virtualization implementation. Key findings include the ESXi hosts not having RAID configured, memory usage exceeding 50%, a flat network design, improper virtual switch configuration, and the backup server and storage nearing capacity limits. The report recommends upgrading RAM, reconfiguring the VMware cluster with RAID-1, designing a new network with multiple VLANs, improving backups, and better utilizing storage. An action plan is provided to address each finding.
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AUDIT REPORT
Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group
VMware Environment Audit
Report# DTG/01/1214
Audit Type: Information Technology
Issuance Date: 16-12-2014
DTG/01/1214 1 of 6 Table of Contents Objective........................................................................................................3 Scope of Audit.................................................................................................3 Current NALG Environment................................................................................4 Findings and Recommendations.........................................................................5 Action Plans.....................................................................................................6
DTG/01/1214 2 of 6 Objective The objective of the VMware environment audit is as follows:
Provide NALG management with an independent assessment of the quality
and attainment of virtualization is as per recommended standards. Provide NALG management with an assessment of the methodologies that has been used in the in the implementation on VMware environment at their premises.
Scope of Audit The scope of the audit is: Review and analyze the complete IT Infrastructure environment. It shall include but not limited to the following areas: Network Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure, Systems Analysis and Virtualization Implementation. To perform other procedures if deemed necessary to achieve the audit objectives.
DTG/01/1214 3 of 6 Current NALG Environment The current NALG Environment consists of the following Hardware: NetApp Storage FAS2240 with Dual FC controller 24x600GB HDD VMware Infrastructure consisting of o Physical Machines Two Fujitsu Primergy RX 300S7 (SN: YLAR025138 and YLAR025139) o Virtual Machines Ten Virtual Machines: HRPR (AX Dynamics 2009, Windows 2008 standard) Emiserver (MS GP 9, Windows 2003 Server) Travesvr (Oracle) Focusserver (SQL, windows 2003 Server) Hrserver (DHCP, Windows 2003 Server) Domain (Windows 2003 Server) Veeam Vcenter Windows XP Network Infrastructure Two HP E2910-24G al switches Veeam Backup Infrastructure
DTG/01/1214 4 of 6 Findings and Recommendations No. Findings Recommendations 1. The ESXi Hosts do not have Raid configured in Raid-1 is recommended for the ESXi hosts for the local the Local Disks disks. 2. The memory of the VMware environment is Upgrade the RAM from 32 GB to 64 GB on both the hitting more than 50%. In case of any host failure hosts the other host cannot take the load of all the VMs 3. The network infrastructure is flat. It contains only To create multiple vlans, as per the requirement, at one subnet with all the devices in it. least 4 vlans are required. Changes needs to be done in the firewalls, DNS, etc. 4. Virtual Switches are not configured as per There is a change in the network design required to do recommended methodology this in order to let vlans into the VMware Infrastructure. 5. Backup server is a VM with Veeam software. It It is highly recommended to keep the backup server to does not take application level backups be physical and outside the VM environment. The software needs to be upgrade to enterprise level to take application and NetApp File Server backups. 6. NetApp storage reaching its limits. Certain configuration needs to be done in order to better utilize the storage.
DTG/01/1214 5 of 6 Action Plans The following action plans should be carried out:
1. Upgrade the RAM in the Servers to at least 64GB.
2. Reconfigure the complete VMware HA cluster in order to have RAID-1 configuration on local disks. 3. Downtime required to perform the activity in Step 2. 4. Backup all the VMs before the reconfiguration of the VMware HA Cluster in Step 2. 5. Design a new network as per the requirement of NALG. 6. Configure new vlans as per design in step 5. 7. Introduce vlans in the VMware environment. 8. Design a proper backup mechanism with Veaam. 9. Implement the backup process as per design in Step 8.
