AUDIT REPORT

Nasser Abdulla Lootah Group

VMware Environment Audit

Report# DTG/01/1214

Audit Type: Information Technology

Issuance Date: 16-12-2014

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 Table of Contents
Objective........................................................................................................3
Scope of Audit.................................................................................................3
Current NALG Environment................................................................................4
Findings and Recommendations.........................................................................5
Action Plans.....................................................................................................6

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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