Good planning leads to better outcomes. A VMware Certified Professional will plan and design a customized VMware Infrastructure implementation to meet your specific needs for server consolidation and server containment. At the end of the engagement, you will have a complete roadmap to guide you through the successful implementation of VMware Infrastructure in your organization.

• Optimize your VMware Infrastructure environment
• Avoid implementation pitfalls that can stall or slow down your deployment
• Accelerate the realization of the benefits of virtualizing your environment

IT organizations who are scaling their virtual infrastructure beyond a proof-of-concept or expanding to other datacenters and want to leverage proven best practices

• Design enablement knowledge transfer workshop
• Implementation of a prototype reference VMware Infrastructure 3 environment of up to two VMware ESX Server hosts, one VMware VirtualCenter Server and VMware Converter
• Virtualization capacity and financial analysis
• VMware Infrastructure (VI) Design Documents
  • VI Architectural Design
  • VI Assembly and Configuration Guide
  • VI Standard Procedures
  • VI Test Plan
  • VI Rollout Plan

• VMware Infrastructure 3 Licenses and supported hardware environment
• Network access to gather performance and utilization data for existing physical servers

• VMware Certified Professional Consultant assesses current environment, conducts knowledge transfer session and documents architectural design
• VMware Engagement Manager plans and coordinates all Plan and Design activities
• Customer Systems Architects are responsible for servers, storage and networking
• Customer Server Administrator is responsible for operating system and applications

• Resources of one VMware Certified Professional and one Engagement Manager
• 8-10 week duration, including 30-day data collection and baseline period
• VMware Plan and Design Service delivered by a VMware Certified Professional Consultant from Lighthouse Virtualization Group
• Contact the Lighthouse Virtualization Group at 888-542- 8030 for pricing information

VMware Plan and Design Service Brochure