Virtualization : Assessment
The HiperLogic Virtual Ready Assessment is a Capacity Planner Assessment service to help you design and size your Virtual Infrastructure deployment.
Our staff performs a discovery of your environment and then monitors performance for 30 days. We analyze data collected from this period and build consolidation scenarios based on your environment. When the engagement concludes you will have a fully documented Virtualization Assessment report with a roadmap for migrating to Virtual Infrastructure quickly and easily.
Objectives
- Install & configure capacity planner data collector software.
- Configure collection schedule and test data transmission.
- Collect inventory information.
- Monitor performance metrics over a 30-day period.
- Generate a customized Virtualization Assessment report.
- Deliver onsite presentation to review key findings.
Service Results / Deliverables
- Roadmap to successfully deploy VI3 in your environment.
- Plan to quickly generate ROI from your investment in a Virtual Infrastructure.
- Assurance that your migration to VI3 will be properly sized and successful.
- Inventory report of your existing install base. (Hardware type, Operating System, Installed Applications)
Benefits of the HiperLogic Virtualization Assessment
- Enables ROI validation of a virtual infrastructure.
- Enables the the project to be completed rapidly.
- Assures your environment is setup properly and best practices are adhered to.
- Frees your internal staff time that would be take up doing a thorough evaluation.
- Discovery ensures all systems are accounted for in the analysis.
- Identifies systems that are not appropriate targets for virtualization.
Key Activities
- Pre-installation conference call for project coordination.
- Capacity planner process overview.
- Installation & configuration of data collector in customer environment.
- Inventory collection and transmission.
- Performance monitoring for 30 days with weekly checks to ensure continuous data transmission.
- Generation of Virtualization Assessment report.
- Delivery of Virtualization Assessment findings presentation.
Scope
- Install & Configure data collector on 1 Windows Server 2003 system.
- Configure inventory discovery & performance metrics collection for up to 50, 100 or 200 systems.
- Perform successful performance collection on the monitored systems (within limits of firewall, security, and customer specific constraints).
