Task 3: Determine If Self-Service Provisioning Is a Business Requirement

Virtual Machine Manager supports self-service provisioning of VMs to hosts. Administrators can allow delegated users to provision VMs by using a Web portal. Determining whether the business requires support for self-service provisioning and which locations should support this capability impacts how the team sizes and places Web servers in step 5.

Record the following information in Appendix A: "Project Scope Job Aid":

  • Determine whether the business requires support for self-servicing. Ask business stakeholders whether the solution must support self-service provisioning. This is a necessary prerequisite for performing this task. If the business has no requirement to use self-service ...

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