VMware Design & Implementation Share

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VMware Assessment Options

Capacity Planning

Gain insight into IT resource utilization and develop a virtualization roadmap for server containment and consolidation. VMware Capacity Planner can help you plan for capacity optimization and design an optimal solution to achieve maximum performance.
  • Consolidation Estimate (CE) - Optimized for conducting sizing estimates of a customer’s datacenter environment, CEs provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments. CEs offer a simplified, guided workflow for VMware Capacity Planner with a defined methodology and process for sales professionals to conduct more sizing and lead generation activity.
  • Consolidation Assessment (CA) - Optimized for organizations that want to conduct a deep-dive analysis into an IT environment. CAs provide a detailed roadmap on how customers can achieve an optimized, virtualized data center. Capacity Assessments show the implementation blueprint for actualizing the "to-be" state of the data center.

Plan & Design Options

Infrastructure Design Planning

When making the decision to create a virtual datacenter, proper planning is essential. Avoiding the implementation pitfalls that can stall a datacenter migration is the key to a successful implementation of VMware. A Certified VMware Professional will plan and design a custom implementation, tailor-made for the goals of your company. Organizations that are looking to create or expand their virtual environment can benefit from the optimization of your VMware infrastructure.

VMware Data Recovery

VMware Data Recovery is a simple and complete disk-based backup solution for your virtual machines. It can help secure your environment be providing fast and efficient data protection of all of your VM's - even those that are powered off. VMware Data Recovery is composed of three main components: vCenter Server User Interface, VMware Data Recovery virtual appliance, and the de-duplicated destination storage. Providing full backup of virtual machines and full or incremental virtual machine recovery, VMware Data Recovery is the first line of data protection for your virtual environment.

Site Recovery Manager Planning

VMware vCenter Site Recover Manager is designed to automate the execution of disaster recovery plans for a virtual environment, minimizing recovery time from critical system errors. Site Recovery Planning provides comprehensive design planning for the implementation of Site Recovery Manager (SRM) into your virtual environment. Accelerate your disaster recovery and business continuity planning by engaging our VMware Certified Professional staff, who will create an SRM design for your business.

Implementation Options

vSphere Infrastructure with P2V Implementation

vSphere Implementation services help to jumpstart your VMware implementation by providing a combination of on-site configuration and knowledge transfer for the implementation of your VMware ESX and vSphere Converter installations. Standard on-site installation of up to two ESX hosts and vCenter Converter allows you to see how VMware is implemented in your environment. VMware Infrastructure Implementation service will help you mitigate risk and gain valuable training from a VMware Certified Professional engineer as they install your virtual infrastructure and perform up to three Physical to Virtual server conversions.

vSphere vCenter Server Implementation

An optional, complimentary component of the VMware Infrastructure Implementation service is the installation and configuration of VMware vCenter Server. This crucial management application works as a single point of management for your virtual machines and additional VMware components such as Site Recovery Manager and VMware Data Recovery. Installation of vCenter Server and knowledge transfer on how vCenter Server works in your environment will help accelerate your understanding of how to manage your virtual environment.

VMware Data Recovery Implementation

As the first line of protection for your company’s vital data, VMware Data Recovery should be considered an integral part of your virtual environment. This solution is fully implemented with vCenter Server, enabling central management of both the virtual machines and the backup jobs required to keep them safe. Data Recovery features De-Duplication technology, helping to minimize the storage requirements of your backups.

vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager Implementation

vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager is the VMware flagship Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity product. SRM has the ability to automate the execution of Disaster Recovery plans, minimize human error in disaster recovery, and get your company up and running quickly and efficiently. Leveraging our experienced VMware Certified Professionals will provide you with on-site installation and configuration of SRM, in addition to a sample recovery plan. Thorough knowledge transfer will help make sure that you are prepared to make configuration changes and effectively manage your virtual infrastructure disaster recovery.

vSphere 4.0 Upgrade Implementation

This service is designed for customers that are currently running VMware Infrastructure 3 and would like to upgrade to the latest version of VMware: vSphere ESX 4.0. One of our experienced VMware Certified Professional engineers will come on-site and assist in the upgrade of up to three ESX hosts, one instance of vCenter Server, and 20 virtual machines. Additionally, the engineer will provide in-depth training on the upgrade process.