Operating System Advantages And Disadvantages

Hyper-V Hyper-V offers many benefits, especially to a growing company. Hyper-V allows you to deploy operating systems on VMs from the server. It also allows for the deployment of new servers in a small amount of time, which saves resources in setting up new systems and allows for easier testing prior to rolling out a new product. Copies of a server’s configuration can be used to restore a corrupted machine limiting the down time when a server fails. Blade servers can be used and VM servers can be deployed on separate blades reducing the need for additional machines. This would be a good option for the Atlanta location due to the space restraints.
Hyper-V offers a Failover Clustering feather that can increase your network server’s efficiency.

AD will be setup to deploy any new updates to the antivirus and antimalware software that resides on the clients as soon as it become available. All operating system and application patches will be kept up to date by scheduling deployments as soon as testing is completed. User privileges will be monitored to ensure that access to restricted network resources is kept safe. Recovery plans will be well documented and provided to all network administrators. Password criteria has been designed to provide a high level of security by not allowing use of any words defined in the dictionary and requiring a combination of character, numbers, and symbols. The passwords will expire after a set amount of time to prevent any sharing of passwords. I have previously listed some steps to address the disaster recovery concern. In addition to those, a full disaster recovery plan has been created and distributed to each of the sites. A complete network map of each site has been designed and distributed accordingly. Offsite backups will be conducted on a set schedule. This will be in addition to the site to site backup that is performed more frequently.