A VMware Virtualization Assessment gives you a clear view of server consolidation
opportunities within your existing physical IT infrastructure.
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Overview
- Estimate potential server consolidation cost savings.
- Estimate required server hardware and VMware vSphere licenses.
- Use VMware Capacity Planner for data collection, scenario creation, and optimization
analysis.
- Accelerate the assessment process with proven VMware server consolidation experience.
In-Depth
Companies planning server consolidation projects who need guidance on sizing requirements
and justification of expenditures to facilitate consolidation via virtualization
should look to the IntraSource VMware Virtualization Assessment. Our VMware Assessment
includes:
- Up to 30 days of system and performance data for existing Windows® servers in your
environment. To collect the data, our consultant installs a VMware Capacity Planner
Data Manager at one site (one collector)
- Data analysis for up to 200 existing Windows servers
- Server consolidation and virtualization assessment report including a preliminary
total cost of ownership analysis of the sampled environment, and recommendations
IntraSource has the ability to leverage VMware's Capacity Planner to deliver
the following to customers from SMB to Enterprise:
- Consolidation Estimates (CE)- Optimized for Sales professionals
to conduct pre-sales sizing estimates of a customer's datacenter environment, CEs
provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments.
Consolidation Estimates show the potential To-Be state of the datacenter. CE is
a simplified, guided workflow of Capacity Planner and a defined methodology/ process
for Sales professionals to conduct more sizing and lead generation activity.
- Capacity Assessments (CA)- Optimized for Consulting or Services
professionals to conduct a deep-dive analysis into a customer's datacenter environment.
CAs provide a detailed roadmap on how customers can achieve an optimized, virtualized
datacenter. Capacity Assessments show the implementation blueprint to actualizing
the To-Be state of the datacenter. CAs leverage the full power and flexibility of
Capacity Planner and the industry expertise of Professional Services to conduct
more virtualization assessments and datacenter transformation.
IntraSource Professional Services helps IT departments in companies of all sizes
accelerate time to market, reduce deployment risk and maximize ROI as they adopt
virtualization. IntraSource Professional Services includes experienced IT professionals
who provide consulting, technical account management, integration and deployment
services for VMware products and solutions.
