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 Virtualization Strategy Development
- Perform Assessment of the current infrastructure.
- Outline how virtualization best practices will be followed for server, desktop, and storage virtualization.
- Identify Target Virtualization Objectives (TVO's).
- Analyze the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to maximize the overall return on virtualization investment.
- Virtualization Hardware and Software Install and Configuration
- Work along side IT Teams on the initial install and configuration of the virtualization technologies.
- Help organizations transition from a physical environment to a virtual environment with minimal downtime.
- Maximize the hardware and software investment and make sure it is all configured properly to work together as designed by following best practices.
- Network Storage Capacity Planning
- Consolidate and simplify your network storage into a single managed environment.
- Leverage the benefits of virtualization by implementing a proper storage plan before rolling out virtual servers and desktops.
- Disaster Recovery Plans
- Outline the best recovery plan for physical failures or natural disasters.
- Leverage the virtual environment as a key piece to the overall disaster recovery plan.
- Create step-by-step procedures so as to be up in minutes after a disaster rather than hours or days.
- Network Infrastructure Design
- Analyze existing switches, routers, and firewalls to determine if they are adequate for the proposed virtualized environment.
- Design or modify network infrastructure to realize full potential of the virtualization investment.
- On-going Health Check Maintenance Plans
- Perform pro-active monthly hardware and software review of logs as preventative maintenance.
- Analyze drives failures or memory problems.
- Create monthly reports of findings.
- Check for firmware and software updates and schedule as needed.
- IT Staff Training
- Perform Hands-on training, in your environment.
- Provide a complete overview of all the tools and features available to manage your virtualized environment.
- Review best practices for virtualized environments
- Provide Virtualization publications and collateral as needed
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