Accelerating Virtualization and Management Deployment

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Software Assurance Planning Services

Show your customers how to streamline their IT infrastructure by consolidating multiple underutilized physical servers onto a single host, integrating management of both physical and virtual systems. Demonstrate how to reduce costs while reducing space and energy by leveraging Virtualization for server consolidation.

An Accelerating Virtualization and Management Deployment engagement consists of pre-built engagement materials and structured sessions designed to help partners educate customers and deploy technology in a methodical manner.

Summary of Engagement Activities:

3-Day Engagement consists of:

A workshop covering System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Recommended next steps, including a Proof-of-Concept or Production Pilot deployment.

5-Day Engagement consists of:

Workshop covering System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Discussion topics include; concepts of server virtualization, monitoring, alerting, high-availability, automation and reporting.
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit will be run against the customer’s production environment. Results and recommendations will be documented.
Recommended next steps, including a Proof-of-Concept or Production Pilot deployment.

10-Day Engagement consists of:

Deployment of a Proof-of-Concept environment that will be used to demonstrate the capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Recommended next steps, including recommendations for Production Pilot deployment.

Looking for additional information? Contact pvdpshelp@microsoft.com.

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