Marking Criteria (Demo/Implementation) Total (25) Your Marks
In your presentation, you need to briefly analyse the business requirements and 3 Marks your designed cloud architecture. A proper topology design is necessary. Complete functionality (e.g. node design). Performance consideration (e.g. enough VMs and storage) Your demo needs to meet the requirements of your design. 1 Mark Chosen of a proper cloud implementation platform. Reasons are clearly and 1 Mark reasonably explained. At least more than two physical hosts in your demo (can be real physical host or 2 Marks Virtual Esxi host). A vCenter deployment (Windows or Linux appliance) 1 Mark Do you need computation nodes? If not, why? If yes, at least one computation 1 Mark node is implemented to demonstrate functionality. Do you need storage nodes? If not, why? If yes, at least one storage node is 1 Mark implemented to demonstrate functionality. Do you need a security node? If not, why? If yes, have at least one security node. 1 Mark Do you need a backup node? If not, why? If yes, have at least one backup node. 1 Mark You need to implement vMotion, HA, DRS. 3 Marks Have you implement a security node or a backup node to demonstrate 3 Marks functionality? Overall demonstration, e.g. sufficient efforts, fluent demonstration, 5 Marks performance consideration, multiple hosts Individual questions, e.g. Have you considered about VLANs, distributed 2 Marks switching, host profiles, auto deploy, etc? Or demonstrate how to implement vMotion?
Extra Marks Max 4 Marks Any virtualisation platforms are used other than Vmware (e.g. OpenStack and 2 Marks Hyper-V)? Both security node and Backup node are implemented to demonstrate 2 Marks functionality. (This becomes compulsory if a group with more than 4 members) Multiple physical hosts are used (bridge is used instead of NAT) 1 Mark
Marking Criteria (Design/Report) Total (15) Business Requirements 3 Marks The group needs to clearly analyse what the business requirement would be, i.e. specify the target client and the business case scenario for a cloud computing infrastructure. Cloud Architecture and Design 7 Marks The group needs to have a detailed architecture design, including diagrams of the proposed infrastructure and components. This part needs to include implementation platform choices, tooling to be used or developed. Cost analysis also needs to be included. Postgraduates are expected for more detailed analysis on platform comparison. Considerations and Challenges 3 Marks You need to summary what you feel are some of the key issues or challenges in the cloud infrastructure design, and what tools, design patterns and other supports are available to simplify these issues or challenges. Reference 2 Marks In order to finish Assignment 2, the group is expected to have some research on cloud architecture, design, and implementation. You need to reference research sources appropriately using UTS Harvard style.