Automation of Systems Deployment, Monitoring and Configuration
  - ~~Phase I: (Base Deployment)~~
      - ~~Create a Deployment Server (DHCP/TFTP/HTTP/DNS)~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: CentOS 5.1~~
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with Deployment Server~~
      - ~~Create DVD image of Deployment Server~~
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with Request Tracker (RT)~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: VMware ESX Server~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: Windows XP~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: Windows Server 2003~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: Debian Stable~~
      - ~~Automate deployment of Base Template: Ubuntu~~
      - ~~Re-deploy Deployment Server from kickstart DVD~~
      - ~~Unit Test all base installs~~
      - ~~Training class for deployment system~~
  - Phase II: (Base Configuration Management/LDAP)
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with VMware Server~~
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with Fedora-DS LDAP Server~~
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with subversion/git~~
      - ~~Extend CentOS 5.1 template with cfengine policy host
      - Extend all Base OS templates with cfengine clients (5 items)  
      - Extend Windows 2003 Server with Active Directory Controller
      - Extend Windows 2003 Server with Exchange
      - Test Password Synchronization between AD <-> LDAP
      - Migrate User base into LDAP
      - Write recursive group enabler script
      - Convert All templates to ldif (LDAP parse-able format)
      - Move cfengine classes from cfagent.conf to LDAP
      - Configuration Management for Cisco Switches
      - Configuration Management for Clariion CX3-10c SAN
      - Training class for Configuration management System/LDAP
  - Phase III: (Monitoring)
      - Extend CentOS 5.1 template with monitoring host
      - Create ldif Monitoring Templates for all Base Templates
      - Extend ldif Monitoring Templates for all existing Extensions 
      - Create proc/mem/disk/thread policy for all future templates
      - SNMP monitoring of Cisco Switches
      - SNMP monitoring of Clariion CX3-10c SAN
      - Training class for monitoring and template creation.
  - Phase IV: (Tooling)
      - Purchase VMware VirtualCenter for VMware Server [Nice to have]
      - Extend CentOS 5.1 Base Template with Apache and Catalyst
      - Write web-frontend for deployment
      - Write web-frontend for user management
      - Write web-frontend for repository management
      - Write web-frontend for template management
      - Write web-frontend for monitoring
      - Write web-mashup for Cisco
      - Write web-mashup for Clariion
  - Phase V: Business Cases
      - Extend CentOS 5.1 template with Kerberos
      - Extend CentOS 5.1 template with Kerberos enabled Samba
      - Extend Windows Server 2003 Template with MS-SQL
      - Investigate replacing file servers
      - Investigate replacing SFTP servers
      - Extend CentOS with Java 
      - Extend CentOS with tomcat
      - Extend CentOS with Ruby (and Rails)
      - ... 
[[BR]]It is at this point we will just have to figure out what windows should be replaced first, and replace all we can.

Virtualization Project:
Purchase 3 Fibre HBAs, and take one out of the 5th 2950
    Populate the 4 2950s such that they have 2 HBAs each

Network Redesign:
Get our consultants in house to set up the catalysts and the ASAs
    Have them configure at least 16 VLANs (prod and labs)
    Ensure that the configurations can be restored with a script (via tftp)
    Present 8 ports on each of the core switches with a trunk of all the VLANs
        Re-cable the ESX network so each ESX server has 2 cables to each switch
            Configure the Virtual Switch port groups
                Move all VMs into new port groups
                Start converting physical hosts to virtual.

SAN:
Nice to have:
At some point I'd like to look at getting another tray of disks for the CX3-10c
the disk spindles are not configured for a tiered workload. We can probably get
by with what we have now, but performance will be sub-optimal. I cannot 
reconfigure the disks without clearing them all off. (There are over 1TB of VMs
on them now.) So I'll need at least 10 300GB disks and another tray to 
remediate this.

Hardware Platforms Support List:
    Dell (any) w/openmanage (all OS)
    Generic PC              (all OS)
    VMware Server VM        (!ESX)
    VMware ESX VM           (!ESX)
    Linode                  (!ESX,!Windows)
    EC2                     (!ESX,!Windows)

Base Installs:
    VMware ESX
    Windows XP
    Windows Server 2003
    CentOS 5.1
    Debian (etch)
    Ubuntu (hardy heron)
    
Planned Install Extensions:
   CentOS 5.2::BIND
   CentOS 5.2::TFTP
   CentOS 5.2::DHCP
   CentOS 5.2::Apache
   CentOS 5.2::Deployment Server
   CentOS 5.2::Samba Server w/kerberos
   CentOS 5.2::Package Server
   CentOS 5.2::Tomcat
   CentOS 5.2::Apache::Request Tracker
   CentOS 5.2::Subversion
   CentOS 5.2::Cfengine Server
   CentOS 5.2::Cfengine Client
   Windows Server 2003::Cfengine Client
   Windows XP::Cfengine Client
   CentOS 5.2::Fedora DS
   CentOS 5.2::VMware Server
   Windows Server 2003::Active Directory Server
   Windows Server 2003::Exchange Server 2003
   Windows Server 2003::SQL Server 
   CentOS 5.2::Nagios Report Server
   CentOS 5.2::Nagios Poll Server