Datacenter Services
VMware’s proven datacenter solutions, built on the industry’s leading virtualization platform, drive business agility by simplifying your business infrastructure to create a more dynamic and flexible datacenter.
VMware Professional Services can help you accelerate the value from VMware’s datacenter solutions. Our consulting service offerings for Server Consolidation, Virtualization Management and Business Continuity are based on in-depth virtualization expertise, proven best practices, and repeatable delivery methodologies help customers optimize performance, reduce risk, and realize the full value of VMware virtualization solutions for datacenter transformation.
Accelerate Your Consolidation Efforts with VMware Professional Services
|
As application portfolios expand and budgets tighten, IT organizations must find ways to increase server utilization and reduce costs. Virtualization strategies that consolidate servers and pool IT resources allow for better control of capex and opex, while increasing the flexibility of the IT infrastructure. By consolidating your server hardware with VMware vSphere, the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation, your organization can:
VMware Consultants can help you accelerate the benefits of server consolidation with VMware Virtualization by helping you deploy more quickly and leveraging our best practices and expertise from working with hundreds of customers around the world to deploy successfully, with less risk.
|
Service Offerings
Our end-to-end consulting services can help assess your IT environment, identify consolidation candidates and the potential savings from using virtualization, plan and manage a successful server consolidation.
Datacenter Services
| Assess | |
|---|---|
|
Assess your current server landscape to determine your potential costs and savings and better prepare you to roll out VMware vSphere™. |
|
|
Strategy & Operations Services The Strategy & Operations practice within VMware Professional Services helps VMware customers overcome strategic, planning, and operational roadblocks to realize the full value of virtualization solutions. |
|
|
Blueprinting Services for Data Centers VMware consultants leverage VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager to quickly identify candidates for consolidation and/or retirement. |
|
|
Enhanced Candidate Selection Services VMware consultants will recommend the best applications and server candidates for virtualization using data gathered from vCenter Application Discovery Manager, VMware Capacity Planner and customer discussions.
|
|
| Plan | |
|
VMware vSphere Plan & Design Service A VMware Certified Professional will develop a comprehensive logical architectural design for VMware vSphere that addresses your requirements, and leverages VMware best practices.
|
|
| Build | |
|
Provides a proof-of-concept onsite configuration and knowledge transfer using VMware ESX™ and VMware vCenter™. |
|
|
VMware vSphere with P2V Migration Jumpstart Onsite proof-of-concept configuration and knowledge transfer of VMware ESX and VMware vCenter best practices, as well as physical to virtual (P2V) migrations using VMware vCenter Converter™. |
|
|
A turnkey, rapid-migration service designed to accelerate large-scale VMware deployments and help customers achieve target ROI faster and at a lower cost than conventional approaches. |
|
|
VMware vSphere with vCenter Lab Manager Jumpstart. Proof-of-concept workshop and demonstration of VMware vCenter Lab Manager™ and its use for software development and testing. |
|
|
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Jumpstart Proof-of-concept, onsite installation and configuration of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM), demonstrating how to leverage SRM to prepare and execute an effective disaster recovery plan. |
|
|
VMware Consolidated Backup Jumpstart Add-on Interactive, proof-of-concept workshop demonstrates backup and recovery of a virtual machine using VMware Consolidated Backup.
|
|
| Manage | |
|
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Accelerator Service The VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Accelerator Service allows customers to try out vCenter Site Recovery Manager in their environment, to evaluate its effectiveness in meeting business requirements for disaster recovery prior to large scale deployment. |
|
|
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Plan and Design Service A VMware Certified Professional will develop a comprehensive logical architectural design for VMware vCenter SRM that addresses your requirements, and leverages VMware best practices. |
|
|
A VMware Certified Professional consultant will work with your team to review your VMware vSphere environment provide guidance to optimize your virtual infrastructure (up to 4 ESX hosts). |
|
|
VMware vSphere Health Check Lite A VMware Certified Professional consultant will work with your team to review your VMware vSphere environment provide guidance to optimize your virtual infrastructure (up to 2 ESX hosts). |
|
|
VMware vSphere Upgrade Service A certified VMware Consultant will upgrade up to three ESX hosts, one VMware vCenter Server and 25 virtual machines onsite (VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4) |
|
|
Resident VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Consultants are placed onsite at a customer location and are available on a daily basis during project kickoff, design, build, and production phases. |
