1. DATA CENTER RECOMMENDATIONS
Prepared for Mr.Tareq Nasser
Michele Al-Sayegh Group
Data Center Recommendations
Thursday 6/12/2012
Prepared By
Mahmoud Odeh

2. Documentation Outlines
The following are essential when building an
infrastructure:
• High level documentation using Microsoft Visio for
the high management to oversaw.
• Low level documentation with details about every
thing in the infrastructure also we can use Visio for it.
• Benefits : we can easily understand our
infrastructure and easily determine if any problem
exist and fix it
• Better understanding for overall infrastructure and
network in order to manage upgrades and Updates
in hardware as well as software and applications

3. Sample Infrastructure Using Microsoft Visio

4. Security
• Planning and analyzing permissions is essential for
Administrator, super admins and users.
• User permissions should be documented.
• Linking between HR and the admin for
administration purposes over permissions using the
active directory especially when new employees
come or former employees leave

5. Security continued

6. Back-up solutions
• I recommended Acronis® Backup & Recovery software
because this is the best recommended software from
Dell itself.
• It is very simple and powerful application and as we can
use any other application for backup but it must be very
simple to automatically make backup without any
disconnect or delay
• Please check these web sites to know more about
Acronics
http://www.acronis.com/backup-
recovery/enterprise.html
http://content.dell.com/us/en/business/d/sb360/acronis

7. Active directory
• Must be full with information about all users
including email, address and phone number as well
as any important info for both the company and HR
support
• Must clearly show every user’s permissions
• All the group policy and organizational units must
be documented.

8. Thank You
First of all, thanks for Mr. Tariq Nasser who taught me
a lot of things for free from his Extensive experience
Finally, I will finish my own website soon which is still
under construction and will include a lot of technical
details about enterprise solutions, server farms, data
centers and server room best practices as advises for
system administrators.
Web site : www.odeh1.com
Email : mahmoud@odeh1.com