Subject: Request for Assessment and Recommendation on Proposed Infrastructure Options

I hope this message finds you well.

We are anticipating a significant increase in the volume of money market loans and deposits in the near future. In preparation for this growth, we have evaluated our current system capacity in coordination with our capacity management team. Based on our discussions, we have identified the following three infrastructure options to handle the expected load:

1. Option 1 – Migrate the current primary and secondary servers from the existing VM setup to two separate physical hosts.

2. Option 2 – Provision two new VMs on a new dedicated physical host to manage the anticipated ad-hoc load.

3. Option 3 – Deploy two new VMs on a shared VM cluster without dedicated resources, thus avoiding the cost of new hardware.

We would like to request your expertise in evaluating these options and providing your recommendation on the most suitable solution, considering performance, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and future growth.

Please let us know if any additional information is required to perform this assessment.