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While defining the requirements, each requirement should be clearly stated and specified. Define requirements individually; multiple requirements should not be combined into a single requirement.

During the discovery process, the following information about the current size of the existing environment is identified:

  • Currently, there are 100 physical servers, each hosting a single application. Each application services 10 customers.
  • Not more than 20 application servers or 200 customers should be affected by a hardware failure.
  • Consolidate physical servers to reduce the hardware costs associated with maintaining and refreshing the hardware of the existing application servers.

One of the goals of the project is to consolidate ...

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