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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Develop organisational plan to implement ICT virtualisation
   • Critically analyse current enterprise operations to determine what processes or practices can be realised using virtualisation to ensure long-term sustainability within organisational guidelines
   • Research and analyse alternative virtualisation scenarios, including risk analysis and relative comparisons of each, considering return on investment (RoI)
   • Produce results of analysis, prioritising sequence of processes to be virtualised based on enterprise priorities and setting of sustainability targets for organisation
2. Manage strategies for deploying virtual machines
   • Critically analyse business factors that cause enterprises to migrate to virtualisation
   • Identify virtualisation inhibitors preventing organisation from deploying strategies on local virtual machines
   • Produce virtualisation management plan to capitalise on using virtual machines according to enterprise priorities
3. Manage outsourced services and cloud networks
   • Critically analyse ICT requirements of organisation to produce cloud architecture, using multiple cloud computing elements indicating layers of cloud client stack
   • Produce cost–benefit analysis
   • Produce analytical justifications that will determine deployment model to meet business requirements of organisation
   • Establish service level agreement (SLA) with managed services provider (MSP) or network provider to ensure responsibilities of stakeholders are specified and agreed to

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

develop an effective plan for virtualisation and manage strategies, including managed services

determine and meet client requirements for installation and testing of virtual server

perform information and communications technology (ICT) power-consumption calculations

install, integrate and test virtualisation components according to vendor and technical specifications

produce an accurate cost-benefit analysis and virtualisation management plan for justification

establish an effective service level agreement (SLA).

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

research and specify best practice approaches relevant to sustainability

contrast common business processes, including:

relevant organisational policies, procedures and protocols

relevant systems and procedures to aid in the achievement of workplace sustainability

determine the client business domain, including client organisational structure and business functionality

define cloud computing architecture

outline compatibility issues and resolution procedures

specify the configuration of internet protocol (IP) networks

critique current industry-accepted products

research and specify energy consumption and energy audit methodologies

outline environmental and sustainability legislation, regulations and codes of practice applicable to the industry and organisation

explain the environmental impact of products, processes, systems and services

explain linkage between policies and the development of processes and practices

explain principles, practices and available tools and techniques of sustainability management relevant to the ICT industry

describe quality assurance systems relevant to own organisation

identify a range of relevant managed services, including software, network and support

describe technologies and other requirements relevant to virtualisation, including:

cloud computing

power supply requirements and management

server design and network architecture

set-up and configuration procedures

single and multiple processors

vendor specifications and requirements for software installation

virtual server functionality

system diagnostics

using software simulation.

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