Total Cost Of Ownership

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Total Cost Of Ownership
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1 INTRODUCTION
This document gives an outline of the key hardware and software required by the university to
finish the setting up of the new server room to accommodate the hardware envisioned to ensure
all student access the networking simulation software and among other software from any place
at any time.
Currently, the student uses a standalone machine which has the emulator software packages
installed on them to enable the student to access the emulatorsoftware such as packet tracer for
network design purposes. This method has for the past been working very well but a recent
survey proves the system is not scalable as more student enrolls in the computer networks
classes. Most studentswants to have access to the system even from their dorm room which is
currently not possible as they have to be physically present in the computer lab. There is a
proposal to shift the methodoloty used to access the system from the current standalone to amore
robust cloud private cloud infrastructure which will not only allow the student access the
resources anywhere anytime but also ensure the system is scalable for future enrollnemtns. Such
a system require a lot of planning to enure the project feasibility is established and required cost
sources. This document provides the hardware and software requirments that shall be a
requirement to have the project up and running. The propsed design of the physical room where
the core hardware is to housed is architecturally designed in this document to enable the
implementatiion to have an easier time figuring out where each component will be placed. This
is critical for proper device installation.

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The following section describes the key hardware and software requirements, the proposed
design of the server room and a comprehensive total cost of ownership done to propose the
project to the board of the university for commissioning.
2 HARDWARE SPECIFICATION
Item Model Specs Quantity Vendor
CPU
Intel Server CPU Xeon E5-
2603V3 LGA2011-3 1.6G
BX80644E52603V3
Intel CPU designed
specifically to run cloud
infrastructure by
leveraging the design
factor used to ensure
reliable cloud processing
(Yang, Awasthi, Ghosh,
Bhimani, & Mi, 2018)
100 Intel
RAM 32GB DDR4 2666MHz Speeds start at 2666 MT/s
Faster speeds and
responsiveness than
conventional DDR4
memory
Ideal for cloud and high-
performance server.
32 Transcend

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(Tonkin, 2017)
Hard Drive 10TB
WDAC310100
The Western digital drive
shall provide ample
storage facilities for the
virtual machines
envisioned to be included
in the new server
requirements (Snelgrove,
2012).
1000 Western
Digital
Equipment
UPS
Oeveo UPS Mount 143-
10.65H x 4.3W x 11D |
Uninterruptible Power
Supply (UPS) Mount for
APC, CyberPower, Tripp
Lite, and More | UPSM-143
This is an equipment UPS
with the output voltage of
210kV
4 Oeveo
Operating
system
VM sphere 64-bit CPUs OS
able to support 2.4Ghz
CPU clock
Provide the virtualization
environment needed to run
the machines to be
virtualized (Duran, Roda,
& Macchi, 2016)
1 Oracle
Air
conditioner
Midea MAD30C1YWS
Dehumidifier 30 Pint with
The air conditioner shall
provide the cooling effect
2 MIDEA

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Reusable Filter to the massive hardware
which generates a lot of
heat due to the strong
computations handled by
the server (Banerjee, 2019)
Server HP ProLiant DL380 G5
Server
Provide the high
computational power to
service client machines
request
3 HP
3 SERVER DESIGN
The architectural design below shows the position of the various hardware that will be used to
support the deployment of the core server hardware (Pan, 2015).

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Pricing
Item Model Price(USD) Quantity Total Cost
CPU Intel Server CPU Xeon
E5-2603V3 LGA2011-3
1.6G BX80644E52603V3
146 100 14, 600
RAM 32GB DDR4 2666MHz 164 32 5,248
Hard Drive 10TB 211 100 21,100