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