Development and Bench Test of Complete Asset Inventory
Assume that you are employed by Sahara Inc. Sahara Inc is an up-and-coming on-line reseller of books video games and small household appliances. Projections for 2016 sales are looking up and expected to be in the $750000000 dollar range with 2017 sales expected to exceed $1 billion dollars.Sahara has a large scale data center housing the entire IT infrastructure of the company. It consists of over 300 systems with multiple operating systems and that there are 30-40 personnel there during normal operations. (a) Develop a complete asset inventory overview and create a detailed inventory for the tier 1 and tier 2 assets. (b) Develop a strategy for periodically testing your inventory. Make sure your test methodology covers the troublesome area of asset classification:the official hardware inventory does not match a sampled inventory of the data center. For instance the official inventory of a rack #VR15 shows 10 Dell servers runningUbuntu16.04 LTS however the actual rack contains over 20 servers from Dell HP andLenovorunning a variety of operating systems.