General overview
Relecloud is in international data services company that has 1000 users. The company has a sales department, a marketing department, a research department, and a human resources department.
Physical locations
Relecloud has one office in Seattle. The company has customers throughout North America and Europe.
Relecloud has most of its computing infrastructure located in a datacenter in Los Angeles. The company also has a few servers that are configured as Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
Existing Environment
Active Directory
The network contains an Active Directory forest named relecloud.com. The forest contains two domains named relecoud.com and relecloud.local. The functions level of the domain is Windows Server 2008 R2.
Each office contains five domain controllers. Each office is configured as an Active Directory site.
Current business model
Relecloud maintains a single Microsoft SQL Server database named Database1. Database1 hosts all of the data for the customers of Relecloud. Database1 has a total of 600 GB of data.
Relecloud provides data for its customers by using several methods of delivery, such as comma-separated value (CSV) files and fixed-width text files. All of the files are delivered by using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Secure (SFTP).
The SQL Server environment contains two on-premises servers and one server in the Azure region of US West. The Azure infrastructure contains as ExpressRoute connection.
The network contains the SQL servers configured as shown in the following table:
ServerDB1 and ServerDB2 are members of an availability group.
Problem statements
Relecloud identifies several issues with its current data storage model. Multiple customers report that they have issues loading files into relational databases. Additionally, Relecloud administrators often fail to communicate with the FTP servers of the Relecloud customers.
Currently, the memory and the CPU of ServerDB1 and ServerDB2 are nearly fully utilized.
Requirements
Business goals
Relecloud plans to take a leadership role in its industry and modernize its delivery method. The company also plans to offer its customers easier access to its data.
Planned changes
Relecloud plans to move all of its customers to a delivery model that uses Azure SQL Database and plans to maintain a single database for each customer.
Relecloud plans to automate the process of creating the required infrastructure for each new customer, including the process of loading data to the customer databases.
Relecloud plans to onboard 30 new customer accounts during the next year. The data for the new customers is approximately 10 GB and has a static size. The new customers require a rapid response time to database queries and each customer has five to 10 concurrent logins.
Security requirements
Relecloud identifies the following requirements:
• Customers must be able to read data only.
• Customers must be able to create custom views.
• Customers must be able to use two-factor authentication when accessing Azure SQL databases.
Technical requirements
Relecloud identifies the following technical requirements:
• Database administrators must be notified when the CPU pressure of AzDB01 exceeds 80 percent.
• If ServerDB0 and ServerDB2 fail, AzDB01 must be able to respond to customer requests for data.
Auditing requirements
Relecloud identifies the following requirements:
• All of the requests from the stored procedures that are run against the Azure SQL databases must be logged.
• All auditing information must be viewable in Microsoft Excel in real-time.
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