The VMware Virtualization Assessment gives you a clear view of server consolidation opportunities within your existing physical IT infrastructure. The Lighthouse Virtualization Group assesses your current server landscape to determine your potential costs and savings, and better prepare you to roll out VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

Companies planning server consolidation projects who need guidance on sizing requirements and justification of expenditures to facilitate consolidation via virtualization.

• Estimate potential server consolidation cost savings
• Estimate required server hardware and VMware virtual infrastructure licenses
• Use VMware Capacity Planner for data collection, scenario creation, and optimization analysis
• Accelerate the assessment process with proven VMware server consolidation experience

• Up to 30 days of system and performance data on existing Windows servers in your environment. To collect the data, a consultant installs 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

• VMware Certified Professional Consultant Leads assessment efforts; provides best practices knowledge of ongoing datacenter and infrastructure issues over the course of the workshop
• Customer IT Management Plans and coordinates all IT projects
• Systems Administrator Responsible for server hardware, storage and networking
• Server Administrator Responsible for operating system and applications

• Up to 2 days on-site
• Analysis conducted on up to 200 Windows servers selected by the customer
• Assessment Report created offsite
• VMware Virtualization Assessment delivered by a VMware Certified Professional Consultant (VCP) from Lighthouse Virtualization Group
• Contact the Lighthouse Virtualization Group at 888-542- 8030 for pricing information

• Dedicated networked (including Internet access) Windows 2000 Server SP3 or higher machine with at least 500 MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, and 2GB free disk space
• Local and domain administrator (root) access to existing servers to gather data for use in analysis

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