Virtualisation Candidates – How to identify

gmcshera — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:08:07 GMT

In my post yesterday I spoke about virtualisation candidates (amongst other things) and how we now know what loads and systems are viable. Have a look at the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool. Its the tool for identifying candidates. There is also a nice video demo from Baldwin Ng, showing the tool in action. The tool will remotely gather information regarding your enterprise without installing agents. The MAP tool then generates a candidacy report(s) that can be used to justify the investment including the hardware requirements for your virtualisation environment.

Note: The RTM version of MAP v3.0 only includes Virtual Server 2005. You will need MAP v3.1 Beta for Hyper-V. Check out this posting for details on joining the beta. It is still worth running the MAP v3.0 against your environments as virtualisation candidates should be the same regardless.

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Virtualisation Candidates – How to identify