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Overview
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.
Benefits
- 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
Target Audience
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
Deliverables
- 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
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Requirements
- VMware Infrastructure 3 Licenses and supported hardware environment
- Network access to gather performance and utilization data for existing physical servers
Roles and Responsibilities
- 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
Scope and Pricing
- 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
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Sample Project Plan
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For more information or to schedule a no-cost initial consultation, please contact info@lighthousecs.com or call 401-334-0799.