What StuartS said.

I will tell you this much, VLAN’s aren’t necessary to this assignment.

A VPN is completely the wrong technology. A VPN is used when you wish to go from one private network to another and have to traverse a public network (like the internet). What you’re talking about is going to be pretty much contained within one room (data center) so no VPN is required.

Here’s the last bit of help I’m going to give you. You need each server to be on two networks at the same time. One, the network that allows clients to access resources on the servers. The second, for your private network so the servers can communicate with each other.

Come back when you’re done and show us what you came up with and I’ll be happy to offer some input.

There is no one single “correct” answer. I can think of two different ways to do this off the top of my head and both are equally as correct.

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

***William Henley***

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I have just had the same problem with my UIOP keys. This is related to the embedded numeric keys on my Dell E6400, I believe.
I had an issue once before where the laptop started to boot up with the num lock ON instead of off, so that the keys 7 8 9 0 U I O P J K L : M > ? didn’t work as expected. This is a problem if, like me, you use a BIOS password since you cannot tell. In the end I guessed and was able to enter my BIOS password using the function key when appropriate.
After that I could change that set-up by booting to F2.
A few days later it changed back without my knowingly doing anything to prompt it to.
And now I have a similar problem but the above solution doesn’t work. My UIOP keys do not work at all so I cannot enter my password. Still searching the solution. (They were fine until I switched off my laptop). See less

I was guessing from the size of the screen that it was a desktop.
Nice size on that screen! Too bad it isn’t working properly.

Since it is a laptop, one possibility (I don’t know how likely) is
that a wire in the ribbon cable from the video to the screen has
broken where it bends at the hinge. You can attempt to test for
that by slowly raising and lowering the screen while it is turned
on and watch to see if the yellow ever goes away, even briefly.
If so, you can either get a new ribbon cable and install it yourself
or have a computer repair shop do it for you.

If it is under warranty you will probably want to check with whoever
you are supposed to contact about repairs.

Before sending it to or leaving it with anyone you should back up
your data.

You can still try plugging an external monitor into the laptop to see
if the problem shows up. If it does, that means your screen is okay
but either the cable or the video controller is bad.

Replacing a cable should be relatively inexpensive. I have no idea
how much new screens cost. If the video controller is bad, you may
want to replace the laptop. Sometimes repair shops will determine
the problem at no charge if you pay them to repair it.

— Jeff, in Minneapolis

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