Virtual Infrastructure & P2V Quick Start

Service Overview

This consulting engagement will provide you with an accelerated knowledge transfer using aproven methodology and Proof of Concept workshop to allow you to get you staff up and running quicklywith VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter as well as P2V(physical to virtual) conversion bestpractices.

Delivery Process

This workshop is up to 4 days on-site at the customer and provides guidance that allows the customer toimplement a virtual environment. An experienced VMware Certified Professional conducts the workshop,and performs knowledge transfer of Best Practices around configuration, administration and day to dayoperations

Targeted Customer

• Customers new to server virtualization
• Customers who have deployed a small amount of virtualization but need assistance tobuild a business case to drive further adoption
• Customers interested in centralizing their desktops to improve security and manageability
• Customers looking at virtualization to protect systems from downtime
• Customers looking to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy
• Customers who have run out of power, cooling and/or space in their datacenters

Customer Benefits

• Accelerate your deployment of Virtual Infrastructure
• Mitigation of risk by leveraging experienced consultants and proven best practices andmethodologies
• Provide a Proof of Concept in your environment

Key Features

• On-site installation and configuration of up to two ESX Servers and one VirtualCenterManagement Server, and P2V Assistant
• Interactive Workshop focusing on knowledge transfer of Best Practices, Architecture,Administration and Operations
• Additional workshop focuses on the migration process to convert existing physical Windowsmachines into VMware virtual machines.
• Guidance with several P2V migrations in a non-production environment

Virtual Infrastructure Assessment

Service Overview

This consulting engagement will help to maximize your investment in your VirtualInfrastructure by examining all the key areas of their environment as they pertain to the virtualinfrastructure. The goal is to ensure optimal configuration of your environment and consistency in youroperational procedures as per Best Practices.

Delivery Process

This infrastructure review process consists of up to 2 days on-site with an experiencedVMware Certified Professional conducting an assessment of your Virtual Infrastructure usingour Best Practices Methodology to provide a health check of their current environment and will identifypossible areas to optimize configuration and improve performance. At the end of the engagement, youwill be provided with a Health Check assessment report of the current environment andrecommendations on how to achieve Best Practices.

Benefits to Customer

• Provide an independent review of your current environment to compare against best practices
• Accelerate your deployment of Virtual Infrastructure
• Mitigation of risk by leveraging experienced consultants and proven best practices andmethodologies
• Provide a Proof of Concept in your environment

Key Features

• Provide a scorecard of your deployment of Virtual Infrastructure
• Mitigation of risk by leveraging experienced consultants and proven best practices andmethodologies
• Helps to ensure optimal usage of your Virtual Infrastructure

Virtualization & Consolidation Assessment

Service Overview

Our Virtualization & Consolidation Assessment report is more than just an assessment of yourWindows Server environment - it can also include your desktops and storage infrastructure to determinewhere your IT dollars can be best spent. It provides a roadmap to IT financial savings and will provideactionable recommendations that will jumpstart a virtualization and consolidation project. We provide arigorous yet thorough method for comparing what your environment is today against what itcould be.

Delivery Process

A typical assessment takes 3-4 weeks of data collection, followed by 2 weeks of analysis-all of which istaken care of by Open Systems of Cleveland. A final presentation is delivered with a very comprehensivereport to the IT and financial teams at your company. Total time commitment from the end user is about4-8hrs to participate in data collector setup and architectural interviews. After that we require 90 minutes toattend a presentation of the results and discuss next steps. The analysis is based on the number ofdevices analyzed, measured in increments of 250, up to 1000 servers or 4000 desktops.

Benefits to Customer

• Provides a non-intrusive method to discover all systems on your network and determine thetechnical requirements for consolidation
• Provides a detailed financial analysis and builds the business case for them to gain fundingapprovals
• Provides a roadmap to allow them to:
  • Reduce server and storage management costs by 10-35%
  • Reduce hardware and maintenance costs by 50-75% (CapEx and OpEx)
  • Improve Server and Storage Utilization by 50-95%
  • Reduce Power Consumption by as much as 80%
  • Improve service levels by 20-50%

Key Features

• Discovers all networked servers and desktops with Windows 3.11 and higher.
• Generates an inventory of server components, applications, storage and network traffic for acomplete baseline understanding of your environment. Most companies discover 20% moreservers than they expect.
• Gathers performance statistics and trends for services discovered and running on each serverover 4 weeks.
• Compares performance data to industry averages composed of over 3 billion performancerecords. This helps to identify recurring or expected issues before monitoring tools are alerted.
• Compiles inventory and performance data to create hourly server load profiles, giving you an hourby hour breakdown of prime and peak network usage. Allowing you to better consolidate yoursystems.
• A full financial breakdown of your IT infrastructure, based on an industry standard financialanalysis tool to determine the TCO and ROI of the proposed solutions
• File server consolidation provides higher availability, increased storage utilization, reducedadministration and greatly simplifies backup and recovery procedures
• Virtualization and Consolidation provides reductions in overall power and cooling requirements
• Server, Desktop and Storage virtualization provides a foundation for simpler and more costeffective approach to Disaster Recovery

Custom Virtualization Deployment

Service Overview

This consulting package provides you with an a la carte menu of options to meet any customers needs forconsulting services in a fixed fee per quantity model. Simply select the base package and add to it thedifferent options that you require, in the quantities that make sense for you.

Delivery Process

This custom consulting service allows you to mix and match quantities to meet exactly what yourneeds require. An experienced VMware Certified Professional will work through the complete designand implementation of the virtual infrastructure platform to ensure a production ready environment thatcomplies with Best Practices. In order to procure these services, simply follow these steps:

1. Select the base package
2. Enter the quantity of new virtualization hosts to be deployed (physical servers)
3. Enter the quantity of old physical servers to be converted to virtual machines
4. Determine the type and quantity of QuickStart Training required
5. Determine if you will include VMware Consolidated Backup integration

Additional items can be addressed through the addition of custom consulting days.

Key Features

• Base Virtual Infrastructure Deployment Services
  • Architectural Review of the environment
  • Validation of the Hardware Configuration and Cabling
  • Installation and Configuration of VMware VirtualCenter 2.x with connection to existingdatabase (either Microsoft SQL or Oracle)
  • Installation and Configuration of VMware Licensing Server
  • Installation and Configuration of VMware Update Manager (if applicable)
  • Documentation (including site guide and architectural diagrams)
• VMware ESX Server Installation and Configuration
  • Installation of VMware ESX Server 3.x (including current patches)
  • Configuration of Time Synchronization
  • Configuration of Virtual Network Switches
  • Configuration of Virtual Storage Connectivity
  
  
  • Configuration of VMware HA
  • Configuration of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)
  • Configuration of VMware VMotion
  • Creation of one (1) virtual machine template for cloning and deployment
• Virtual Machine Template Deployments
  • Deployment of Virtual Machines from template (Created with Base Services above) VMware ESX Server Installation and Configuration (Continued)
• Physical to Virtual Conversions (P2V)
  • Conversion of physical Windows servers to virtual machines using VMware Converter
• VMware Jumpstart Training
  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure Jumpstart OR
  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure Jumpstart with Physical-to-Virtual Migrations
• VMware Consolidated Backup
  • Installation and Configuration of VMware Consolidated Backup
  • Integration and Testing of Image-based Backup and Recovery for up to three (3) virtualmachines
  • Integration and Testing of File-based Backup and Recovery for up to three (3) virtualmachines