04 — AI Infrastructure Planning
| Owner | CSI Technology & Documentation Lead |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0 |
| Status | Draft |
| Review frequency | Quarterly and after material change |
| Applicable environments | CSI Lab, Development, Testing, Staging, Production, Disaster Recovery, Client Site |
Required coverage
Include:
- Capacity planning
- Workload assessment
- User count
- Concurrent user count
- Requests per minute
- Token usage
- Context window requirements
- Inference workload
- Embedding workload
- RAG workload
- Image generation workload
- Voice workload
- Video workload
- Automation workload
- ERP workload
- Database workload
- Storage growth
- Backup growth
- Network traffic
- Power requirements
- Cooling requirements
- Future growth
- Upgrade path
Create sizing categories for:
- Basic office AI
- Departmental AI
- Multi-user AI
- RAG server
- Voice AI server
- AI automation server
- AI and ERP combined server
- Small business
- Medium business
- Enterprise
For each category include:
- Expected users
- Expected concurrent users
- CPU range
- RAM range
- GPU memory range
- Storage range
- Network requirements
- UPS requirements
- Recommended architecture
- Limitations
- Upgrade options
Do not recommend only one hardware model.
Explain reusable sizing principles.
Acceptance rule
This chapter becomes Active only after accuracy review, command or workflow testing where applicable, risk review, owner assignment, approval, and change-history entry.
Related pages
Change history
| Date | Version | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 1.0 | Initial chapter brief created from the master framework. |