PRO-3300.02: Virtual Asset Categorization

PROCEDURE SUMMARY

Intended Audience: IT service/process owners, IT server administrators, IT asset managers
Guideline Owner: Director of Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS)

Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) assigns the following tags to all virtual assets under their management:

• Sponsor
• Service
• Billing Status
• Size (VMware-specific categories)

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Intended Audience: IT service/process owners, IT server administrators, IT asset managers
Guideline Owner: Director of Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS)

1. Purpose

This document is not a naming convention for the assets themselves.

2.  General Categories

2.1 Sponsor

Sponsors are the departments or business units that are responsible for the applications and services provided by the virtualized asset. For example, the Campus Receivables and Collections (CRC) application is sponsored by Business and Financial Systems (BFS). The sponsor list includes:

• ITS (services co-sponsored by multiple ITS departments)
• EIS
• EAS (Enterprise Applications Services)
• ATUS (Academic Technology & User Services)
• BFS (Business & Financial Systems)
• Registrar
• Facilities
• CSE (College of Science and Engineering)
• CHSS (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Libraries
• AS/VU (Associated Students / Viking Union)
• CBE (College of Business and Economics)
• WebTech
• OSR (Office of Survey Research)

The list may be modified by EIS as University sponsors change.

2.2 Service

Service is defined as the general placement of a virtual server, container or application into the portfolio of IT services. Services include, but are not limited to:

• Identity and Directory Services
• Banner
• Unified Messaging
• [Sponsor] Infrastructure (e.g., Facilities Infrastructure)
• Web Infrastructure (e.g., Proxies, Load Balancers)
• Storage Infrastructure
• >Data Infrastructure (Database Servers, BI Services)
• Printing Infrastructure
• Security Infrastructure

2.3 Billing Status

Billing Status identifies whether the Sponsor is re-billed by ITS for hosting the virtual asset. All virtual assets must be categorized as one of the following:

• Billable
• Nonbillable

3.  VMware-Specific Categories

In addition to general categories, virtual machines hosted in the VMware virtualization infrastructure must be categorized by Size.

3.1 Size

Size is a combination of three factors: RAM (Random Access Memory), Storage, and CPU (Central Processing Unit). RAM is the most limiting resource in the virtualization cluster, and therefore has the largest impact on EIS’s ability to make the service highly available. Valid values for Size are:

• Small: generally 1-4GB of RAM, 40-60GB HDD, 2-4 CPU
• Medium: generally 5GB-8GB of RAM, 61-80GB HDD, 4-8 CPU
• Large: generally 9GB-16GB of RAM, 81-100GB HDD, 8-10 CPU
• X-Large: generally 16+GB of RAM, 100+GB HDD, 8+ CPU

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