Desktop Virtualization and Services
Whether you’re exploring the possibility of a virtualized desktop implementation, expanding your existing virtualization solution to your desktop environment, or standardizing on desktop virtualization across your entire IT infrastructure, VMware Professional Services can add strategic value at every step of the way.
While working together to plan, design and build your desktop virtualization infrastructure, VMware Consultants leverage industry best practices and in-depth expertise to accelerate the rollout to a virtual desktop environment; develop and standardize on repeatable, efficient provisioning processes for virtual desktops; and improve desktop security and business continuity while gaining greater control over your desktop infrastructure.
Service Offerings
In addition, VMware Professional Services and its partners offer a range of services which provide the expertise, staffing, knowledge transfer, and training that customers need to design, deploy and manage virtual desktops.
Desktop Virtualization Services
| Complete Lifecycle Services | |
|---|---|
| Mobile Secure Workplace Service | Designs and implements a complete, mobile and secure desktop solution that meets your unique environment and business needs. This end-to-end engagement—delivered by senior VMware consultants, architects and SMEs—begins with requirements gathering and concludes with production implementation. |
| Always On Point of Care Solution Service | Supports your implementation of the VMware-defined AlwaysOn Point of Care technical healthcare solution. This end-to-end engagement—delivered by senior VMware consultants, architects and SMEs—begins with requirements gathering and concludes with production implementation. |
| Assess | |
| VMware Desktop Virtualization Strategy Assessment | Provides expert guidance and best practice insights to help you develop a comprehensive desktop strategy; includes an impact analysis, organizational and technical interdependencies analysis and a roadmap to help you prepare for and proactively manage a successful adoption. |
| VMware Desktop Application Virtualization Assessment | Delivers a high-level roadmap, infrastructure change recommendations, application virtualization candidate selection and prioritization analysis, compatibility assessment, and load and usage profiles. |
| VMware Desktop Infrastructure Virtualization Assessment | Delivers a technical assessment of your data center and virtualized infrastructure in preparation for your desktop virtualization initiative; includes an analysis of users and desktops to develop selection and implementation priority recommendations. |
| VMware ThinApp Jumpstart | Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of the ThinApp Capture and Build environment, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs. |
| Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of View, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs. | |
| VMware vSphere with Horizon View Jumpstart | Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of vSphere with View, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs. Learn how to efficiently create, provision and manage virtual desktops in a proof-of-concept setting. |
| Horizon Mirage Jumpstart | Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of the Horizon Application, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs. |
| Horizon View Accelerator Service | Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of Mirage, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs |
| Horizon Mirage Accelerator | Implements a pre-production, limited-scale Mirage environment allowing you to experience automated deployment of Windows 7 across new or existing hardware. Helps you quickly validate the technology and provides a base for full-scale design and deployment. |
| Horizon Workspace Accelerator | Implements a pre-production, limited-scale Horizon Workspace environment that allows you to experience the features and benefits of Horizon workspace. Helps you quickly validate the technology and provides a base for full-scale design and deployment. |
| VMware Desktop Accelerator Service | Implements a pre-production, limited-scale desktop and application virtualization environment designed specifically for your business, helping you quickly validate the technology and providing a base for full-scale deployment. Additional service modules are available to address security and/or management in a View environment. |
| Design | |
| VMware ThinApp Plan & Design | Develops a comprehensive infrastructure design to support a production deployment of ThinApp that can be implemented quickly and efficiently while adhering to VMware best practices. |
| Horizon View Plan & Design Service | Delivers a comprehensive View architecture design guided by VMware Consultants and our proven best practices to enable streamlined implementation and accelerated adoption. Additional service modules are available to address security and/or management in a View environment. |
| Deploy | |
| Horizon View Pilot Services (Basic, Standard, Premium) | Demonstrates how desktop and application virtualization can work in your environment. A single use case and single stage pilot lets up to 25 users experience a pilot environment that represents a production environment of the same use case for up to 500 users. |
| Scalability Testing | Simulates a large-scale deployment of virtualized desktops against a given VMware View design to study its effects on your virtualized infrastructure. This service verifies key design elements and establishes baseline capacity metrics against your pre-defined desktop images and applications. |
| Optimize | |
| Horizon View Health Check | Provides insight into your existing View infrastructures as well as their underlying vSphere environments. Uses our Health Analyzer tool in conjunction with VMware best practices to determine the best configurations for performance, scaling and manageability. |
| Operational Readiness for End User Computing | Examines your existing operational practices to identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of your end user computing environment. Performance is evaluated across over 150 different attributes in five key areas to develop a comprehensive roadmap and maturity ranking. |
