Virtualization is being rolled out by companies everywhere faster than any other IT initiative in recent years. In more and more organizations the implementation is being implemented internally and is often fast-tracked in an effort to realize a quick pay back. However, data center virtualization initiatives are complex and a fast-tracked project can be characterized by guesses, assumptions, and sometimes shortcuts.

Our Virtual Infrastructure Health Check Service is designed to ensure optimal configuration, consistency, and procedures according to VMware best practices and performance, plus our own field experience.

Without the right management practices and tools in place, internal projects costs can skyrocket. Our assessment process will identify any gaps in the project implementation and analyze your virtual infrastructure to:

• Ensure optimal virtual machine infrastructure usage and consolidation ratios
• Analyze resource allocation of virtual machines to match actual workload processing requirements
• Identify any critical dependencies that were missed and any improvements you can make to your disaster recovery plan

In addition, we will also point out any other advantages you may not be aware of based upon our deep understanding of all the elements that must work together to achieve improved utilization, higher availability, strong disaster recovery capabilities, or other top priorities for your virtualization project.

Concerned that your virtualization project is not finished? No need to worry, most virtualization projects are a work in process and a health check is an excellent way to ensure you are implementing your initiative according to best practices and to measure progress against goals. We often recommend that you perform health checks on a regular basis, at key intervals along your project timeline. Technology changes quickly; what might have been impractical at the beginning of the project may become viable along the way.

Virtual Infrastructure - Health Check

By Leveraging our extensive knowledge and real world experience in virtual infrastructures, we will offer relevant suggestions or alternate designs. All changes recommended for your environment will be targeted on maximizing the health and performance of your virtual infrastructure. At the completion of our Virtual Infrastructure Health Check, your IT team will have gained the knowledge, know-how, and information required to better manage your virtual infrastructure on a day-to-day basis.

• Areas of Investigation
  • Configuration and Design
  • Utilization Rates
  • Performance
• Deliverables
  • Conduct Assessment of [VMware virtual environment hyperlink to VMware page], including configuration, operations, and usage
  • Identify potential areas to optimize configuration and improve performance
  • Document the inventory of systems analyzed
  • Present an interactive session to facilitate knowledge transfer
• Key Benefits
  • Optimize VMware virtual infrastructure performance
  • Maximize resources through efficiencies and roadmap for future improvements
  • Mitigate risk by leveraging experienced consultants and proven best practices
  • Gauge how well the virtual infrastructure is configured and being used relative to VMware best practices, and identify areas needing attention and/or remediation

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To learn more about our Virtual Infrastructure Health Check services, download the article 'Does Your Virtualization System Need a Health Check?'