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Plan and manage virtualisation for ICT sustainability

Plan and manage virtualisation for ICT sustainability

Unit of competency
National Code
ICTSUS801
State Code
AUW74
TGA Status
Replaced
DTWD Status
Replaced
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
25/03/2015
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State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
16/09/2015
Field of Education
080399 - Business And Management, N.e.c.
Original Release Date
16/09/2015
Nominal Hours
80
Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to analyse, plan and manage options using virtualisation and managed services for organisational processes to meet sustainability targets.It applies to individuals who have responsibility for conducting or managing information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure projects, such as network managers, ICT infrastructure managers, network planners and designers, consultants or contractors.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Develop organisational plan to implement ICT virtualisation
  • 1.1 Critically analyse current enterprise operations to determine what processes or practices can be realised using virtualisation to ensure long-term sustainability within organisational guidelines
  • 1.2 Research and analyse alternative virtualisation scenarios, including risk analysis and relative comparisons of each, considering return on investment (RoI)
  • 1.3 Produce results of analysis, prioritising sequence of processes to be virtualised based on enterprise priorities and setting of sustainability targets for organisation
2. Manage strategies for deploying virtual machines
  • 2.1 Critically analyse business factors that cause enterprises to migrate to virtualisation
  • 2.2 Identify virtualisation inhibitors preventing organisation from deploying strategies on local virtual machines
  • 2.3 Produce virtualisation management plan to capitalise on using virtual machines according to enterprise priorities
3. Manage outsourced services and cloud networks
  • 3.1 Critically analyse ICT requirements of organisation to produce cloud architecture, using multiple cloud computing elements indicating layers of cloud client stack
  • 3.2 Produce cost–benefit analysis
  • 3.3 Produce analytical justifications that will determine deployment model to meet business requirements of organisation
  • 3.4 Establish service level agreement (SLA) with managed services provider (MSP) or network provider to ensure responsibilities of stakeholders are specified and agreed to
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Replaces
State Code National Code Title Type
D8045 ICASUS701A Plan and manage virtualisation for IT sustainability Unit of competency
Replaced By
State Code National Code Title Type
OAQ11 ICTSUS808 Plan and manage virtualisation for ICT sustainability Unit of competency