Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop plan to implement ICT virtualisation
- Critically analyse current organisational operations and priorities to determine processes and objectives that could be supported by virtualisation technologies
- Research and analyse virtualisation scenarios, including undertaking risk assessments and relative comparisons of each to determine predicted return on investment
- Document results of analysis and form recommendations to create plan for implementation, including prioritisation and sequencing of processes to be virtualised based on organisational priorities
- Finalise recommendations and present implement plan for virtualisation to organisational stakeholders and incorporate feedback and agree recommendations
- Manage deployment of virtual machines
- Produce virtualisation management plan to capitalise using virtual machines according to organisational priorities and implementation plan
- Manage procurement of virtual machines necessary to fulfil the virtualisation management plan
- Manage installation and launch of virtual machines according to virtualisation management plan
- Manage outsourced services and cloud networks
- Critically analyse ICT organisational requirements to produce cloud architecture, using multiple cloud computing elements indicating layers of cloud client stack
- Produce cost–benefit analysis to determine net impact of decisions related to outsources services according to cloud architecture
- Analyse deployment model options and select according to organisational requirements
- Establish service level agreement (SLA) with managed services provider or network provider to ensure outsourced responsibilities are specified and agreed to