11. Step 7: Design the Network Connections

In this step, the project team uses the following information to determine network bandwidth and network port requirements, including:

  • Information about the locations containing hosts that the team collected in step 1.

  • List of required Virtual Machine Manager instances that the team collected in step 4.

  • The placement of Virtual Machine Manager servers, database servers, database and Web servers, which the team determined in step 5.

  • The placement of Virtual Machine Manager library servers, determined in step 6.

The project team uses this information to determine necessary changes in network firewalls as well as any network links requiring additional network bandwidth to support Virtual Machine Manager minimum ...

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