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