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Report for January 2020

Report Date
January 2020
Achievements in Last Period
  • All live VMware hosts connected to new vDS
  • All live VM subnets migrated to 10Gbs network
  • Project closure report drafted
Issues/Risks
  • Further work to complete VM hardware upgrades to be covered in ENT201
Next Steps
  • Project closure
Milestones
Date Milestone Phase Complete
26-Feb-2018 Review and update current project brief (V0.5) Plan Yes
28-Feb-2018 Datastore clusters implemented for all hosts Integrate Yes
29-Mar-2018 Project brief V1.0 approved Plan Yes
27-Apr-2018 All EDINA VMs migrated to IS hosting Integrate Yes
22-Jun-2018 vMSC and VIO hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5 and patched to latest levels Build Yes
29-Jun-2018 All VCSAs and PSCs patched to current ESXi 6.5 levels Build Yes
29-Jun-2018 Two legacy EDINA hosts (xv10/11) rebuilt and upgraded to ESXi 6.5 Build Yes
29-Jun-2018 Four legacy EDINA hosts (xv6/7/8/9) retired Build Yes
31-Jul-2017 IS Hosting and IS Research hosts upgraded Build Yes
03-Aug-2018 New hosts installed, configured and operational using ESXi 6.5 Deliver Yes
03-Aug-2018 All VMware licencing correctly assigned and tracked Deliver Yes
10-Aug-2018 VDI hosts upgraded Deliver Yes
28-Sep-2018 User documentation updated and approved Deliver Yes
26-Oct-2018 AWS VM cloning evaluated Deliver Withdrawn
26-Oct-2018 New VMware test cluster built Deliver Yes
23-Nov-2018 VM self-service & billing (vBill) evaluated and report produced Deliver Withdrawn
30-Nov-2018 Encrypted VMs tested and report produced Deliver Yes
30-Nov-2018 VM tools updated Deliver Yes
21-Dec-2018 VM hardware updated (development and test) Deliver Yes
22-Feb-2018 Operational documentation updated and approved Deliver Yes
31-Jan-2019 Complete planning for vMSC move to 1Gb network Deliver Withdrawn
29-Mar-2019 vCenter managed VLANs implemented for specific hosts Deliver Withdrawn
29-May-2019 Brocade 10GB network available Integrate Yes
30-Aug-2019 All test VMware  hosts connected to the 10Gb network Deliver Yes
30-Aug-2019 VMFS 6 upgrades completed Deliver Yes
03-Sep-2019 Change freeze starts    
30-Sep-2019 Change freeze ends    
04-Oct-2019 Fault-tolerant VMs tested and report produced Deliver Yes
31-Jan-2020 All live VMware hosts connected to the 10Gb network Deliver Yes
07-Feb-2020 VM hardware upgrades (live) completed Deliver Withdrawn
14-Feb-2020 Project closed Closure No
Project Status
RAG Status
Time
GREEN
Cost
GREEN
Scope
GREEN
Overall
GREEN
Change Status
Time
No Change
Cost
No Change
Scope
No Change
Overall
No Change
Has formal escalation taken place?
No
Activity
Approved budget
225.0 days
Activity this month
16.0 days
Activity this year
47.5 days
Activity to date
206.0 days
Estimate to complete current year
6.0 days
Estimate to complete future years
0.0 days
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Project Info

Project
VMware Service Improvement
Code
ENT026
Programme
ITI - Enterprise Services (ENT)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Lawrence Stevenson
Project Sponsor
Graeme Wood
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Project Classification
Run
Start Date
25-Sep-2017
Planning Date
29-Mar-2018
Delivery Date
31-Jan-2020
Close Date
14-Feb-2020
Overall Priority
Normal
Category
Discretionary

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