Complete Service Offerings Portfolio
VMware Professional Services offer end-to-end consulting services for Datacenter, Virtualization Management, Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Services. Our service offerings are based on in-depth virtualization expertise, proven best practices, and repeatable delivery methodologies to help customers realize the full value of virtualization for IT as a service computing models faster, and with less risk.
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Business Critical Applications Services
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| Business Critical Application Virtualization Services | Our Business Critical Application (BCA) Virtualization Services provide the expertise, solutions, and experience to deliver optimal results throughout your VMware BCA virtualization journey. Our experts will help mitigate risks and optimize results as you virtualize the most demanding applications, including Oracle applications and databases, SAP, Microsoft applications, enterprise application servers, and platform migrations. |
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| BCA Virtualization Advisory Workshop | VMware consultants use a workshop format to facilitate a feasibility assessment for BCA virtualization, build team knowledge, and provide a roadmap for your BCA virtualization journey. |
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| BCA Virtualization Accelerator Service | Our BCA experts will work with your team to install a single virtualized Oracle or Microsoft Exchange workload in a pre-production environment, providing solution validation, as well as insight and knowledge related to implementing and managing virtualized BCAs. |
| BCA Virtualization Assessment Service | Experienced VMware consultants will work with your team to evaluate your current environment (people, process, and technology) and will help determine your specific path to successfully architecting, implementing, and operating a virtualized BCA environment. |
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| Business Critical Application Virtualization Plan and Design Service | Using your existing data, VMware consultants create a comprehensive, production-quality solution architecture design (physical and logical), system sizing, environment configuration plan, testing approach, and detailed solution migration plan. |
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| Business Critical Applications Virtualization Implementation Service | Our BCA virtualization experts will install, configure and perform extensive system testing of the virtualized environment to support the rigorous requirements of your business critical applications. The consultants will provide design validation, QA testing, and production migration support, as well as tools and knowledge to ensure your team is prepared to successfully manage the environment. |
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| Optimization Service for Business Critical Application virtualization environments | VMware consultants will perform a full health assessment of your virtualized BCA environment, analyzing and reviewing the operational elements, developing a scorecard and providing actionable recommendations to optimize and tune the environment for efficiency, stability and to support future growth. |
Datacenter Virtualization Services
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| VMware vSphere Consulting Services | VMware Professional Services help expand the knowledge base around virtualization and cloud solutions, develop and design a comprehensive virtualization roadmap, leverage best practices for planning migrations, and help transform Data Center environments to take advantage of the full benefits of virtualization and cloud computing. |
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| VMWare Virtualization Assessment with ADM | Using the powerful Application Discovery Manager tool, assesses your current server landscape to determine your potential costs and savings to better prepare for the roll out of VMware vSphere™. |
| VMware Blueprinting Services for Data Center Consolidation using vCenter Application Discovery Manager | Leverages VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager to quickly identify server candidates for consolidation and/or retirement. |
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| VMware vSphere Jumpstart | Provides a detailed knowledge transfer workshop on best practices and a fully functional demonstration on vSphere and ESXi in a pre-production environment |
| VMware vSphere with P2V Migration Jumpstart | An add-on to the vSphere Upgrade Service, demonstrates a limited vSphere P2V migration in a pre-production environment |
| VMware P2V Accelerator Services | Accelerates large scale virtualization deployments using best practices, methodologies and tools to achieve target ROI faster and lower costs. |
| VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Jumpstart | Provides a detailed knowledge transfer workshop and a fully functional demonstration on how to prepare for an effective disaster recovery plan by installing and configuring VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) in a pre-production environment to demonstrate VMware vCenter SRM key features and functionality. |
| VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Accelerator Service | Accelerates the delivery of a functioning vCenter Site Recovery Manager in limited scale, pre-production environment using best practices and methodologies. |
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| VMware vSphere Plan & Design | Delivers a comprehensive logical architectural design for VMware vSphere that addresses your requirements, and leverages VMware best practices. |
| VMware ESX to ESXi Assessment and Migration Service | Ideal for large scale migrations, accelerates existing ESX transitions to ESXi through knowledge transfer workshops, thorough analysis of the environment and estimate the effort required to migrate from ESX to ESXi. |
| VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Plan & Design | Using best practices, delivers a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager that addresses business requirements and VMware vSphere dependencies. |
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| VMware vSphere Upgrade Service | Upgrades your current VMware infrastructure environment to the latest version of vSphere. |
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| VMware vSphere Health Check | Delivers an in depth review of your VMware vSphere environment to optimize your virtual infrastructure with concrete and actionable recommendations. |
| VMware vSphere Design Review | Optimizes your vSphere virtualization platform through a detailed assessment of your current vSphere environment design and provides a gap analysis against VMware best practices. |
| VMware Resident Program | Engage a trusted, dedicated VMware Consultant whose expertise in Virtualization, Cloud, Application Modernization or End User Computing can help accelerate adoption, augment your project team, and provide immediate, onsite technical advice and insights.
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Strategy & Operations Services
Desktop Virtualization Services
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| VMware Desktop Virtualization Strategy Assessment | Provides expert guidance and best practice insight to help develop a comprehensive desktop strategy; includes impact analysis, analysis of organizational as well as technical interdependencies, and a roadmap design to help you prepare and proactively manage for a successful adoption |
| VMware Desktop Application Virtualization Assessment | Delivers a high level roadmap, recommended infrastructure changes, and application virtualization candidate selection and prioritization through application analysis, compatibility assessment, and load and usage profiles. |
| VMware Desktop Infrastructure Virtualization Assessment | Delivers technical assessment of your virtualization and data center infrastructure in preparation for desktop virtualization initiative; includes analysis of users and desktops to develop selection and implementation priority recommendations |
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| The VMware Horizon Application ManagerTM Jumpstart service Provides a quick, pragmatic exploration of Horizon Application Manager, offering insights that can help you make decisions when determining which capabilities will best meet your IT and business needs. | |
| Provides detailed knowledge transfer workshops and a fully functional demonstration environment running on non-production hardware to demonstrate Horizon View key features and functionality. | |
| VMware vSphere with View Jumpstart | Provides knowledge transfer on VMware vSphere and its use for structuring and deploying virtual desktops. Participants learn how to efficiently create, provision and manage virtual desktops in a proof-of-concept setting. |
| VMware ThinApp Jumpstart | Provides a detailed knowledge transfer workshop and Thin App implementation best practices and an on-site installation of a non-production VMware ThinApp Capture and Build environment. |
| Horizon Mirage Jumpstart | The Horizon Mirage Jumpstart service provides companies with an understanding of the product features and capabilities of Horizon Mirage. This service combines a detailed knowledge transfer workshop with a fully functional demonstration environment running on non-production hardware to demonstrate how best to take advantage of Horizon Mirage key features and functions. |
| VMware Desktop Accelerator Service | The VMware Desktop Accelerator service builds a limited scale, non- production virtual desktop environment allowing you to gain insight to how desktop virtualization can address your business needs. At the conclusion of the engagement you’ll understand the typical uses cases, user types and deployment considerations, enabling you to build a business and technical case for desktop as a managed service. |
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| 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 | Delivers a comprehensive Horizon View architecture design guided by VMware consultants and proven best practices to enable streamlined implementation and accelerated adoption |
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| VMware Desktop Virtualization Healthcheck | Provides insight into existing View infrastructures as well as their VMware vSphere® environments. Using VMware HealthAnalyzer tool in conjunction with VMware best practices, discovers the best configurations for performance, scaling, and manageability of the View environment. |
| VMware Resident Program | Customers who want trusted, dedicated virtualization expertise can engage a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) consultant through the VMware Resident Program. |
Management Services
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| VMware Professional Services for Cloud Management Solutions | VMware Professional Services work with you to uncover and exploit the unique opportunities presented by VMware’s industry-leading cloud management solutions. We help you re-think IT management, and to deliver outcomes that are positive, tangible and material to IT and your business. |
| Technology Consulting Services for Cloud Management | VMware Technology Consulting Services for Cloud Management solutions address the entire end to end process to explore, identify, design and implement the right management solutions for your organization, quickly and effectively. |
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| vCenter Operations Management Jumpstart Service | Focused on capacity and performance use cases, installs and configures VMware vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) in a limited environment. |
| vCenter Configuration Management Jumpstart Service | Provide indepth knowledge transfer workshop and hands on experience with automated configuration management across virtual, physical and cloud environments. |
| vFabric Application Director Jumpstart Service | Receive hands on exeperience with and gain in-depth knowledge on Application Director features and technologies |
| vFabric Application Director Accelerator Service | Flexible consulting engagement designed to provide the in-depth knowledge on the Application Director features and technologies most relevant to your requirements. |
| vCloud Automation Center Accelerator Service | Delivers a VMware vCloud Automation Center® computing environment suitable for deploying virtual machines on a limited scale in a vSphere virtualized environment |
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| vCenter Operations Management Design and Deployment Service | Implements vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Infrastructure Navigator to meet your cloud management needs across your physical, virtual and cloud computing infrastructure |
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| Operational Readiness for Cloud Computing | Examines existing operational practices to evaluate performance and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of IT Service Delivery. Performance is evaluated across more than 150 different attributes in five key areas to develop a comprehensive roadmap and maturity ranking. |
VMware vCloud Suite Services Solution Brief
VMware vCloud Suite Consulting Services
| Cloud Operations Advisory Services | VMware Cloud Operations Advisory Services provide actionable insight, prioritized recommendations and financial guidance for major processes that generate cloud operations maturity and value. Flexibly designed, these service offerings holistically assesses the process maturity and financial impact across five key areas:
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| vCloud Suite Jumpstart Services | Focused on the accelerated transfer of knowledge about vCloud Suite technologies, vCloud Suite Jumpstart Services are used to help organizations that are in the early stages of adopting the vCloud Suite. |
| VMware vSphere Jumpstart | Provides a detailed knowledge transfer workshop on best practices and a fully functional demonstration of vSphere and vCenter in a pre-production environment. |
| VMware vCloud Director Jumpstart | Provides knowledge transfer workshops and hands-on product installation, configuration and usage demonstrations for vCloud Director and VMware security technologies using a customer provided vSphere installation. |
| VMware vCenter Operations Management Jumpstart | Understand how vCenter Operations Manager can help manage your virtual/Cloud infrastructure from a performance and capacity management perspective. |
| 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. |
| vCloud Networking and Security Jumpstart Service | Understand the broad range of networking and security services, including virtual firewall, virtual private network, load balancing and VXLAN extended networks for your cloud environment. |
| VMware Application Director Jumpstart Service | Gain a working knowledge of application provisioning in a cloud enabled environment with a demonstration of vFabric Application Director. |
| vCloud Suite Accelerator Services | Validate specific application use cases and provide solid business and technical justification for the vCloud Suite and the ability to explore the business impact of the cloud solution in a low-risk environment. |
| vCloud Accelerator Service - Standard and Advanced | Rapidly delivers a functioning VMware vCloud Director computing environment suitable for deploying applications in a limited scale, pre-production environment. |
| vCenter Site Recovery Manager Accelerator Service | Accelerates the delivery of a functioning vCenter Site Recovery Manager in limited scale, pre-production environment using best practices and methodologies. |
| Operational Readiness for Cloud Computing | The VMware Operational Readiness for Cloud Computing service examines a customer’s existing operational practices to evaluate their performance and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of IT Service Delivery. Performance is evaluated across more than 150 different attributes in five key areas to develop a comprehensive roadmap and maturity ranking. |
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| vSphere Plan & Design | Delivers a comprehensive logical architectural design for VMware vSphere that addresses your requirements, and leverages VMware best practices. |
| vCloud Plan & Design | Provides a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCloud Director that addresses your unique business requirements and operational demands, helping customers pave the way to cloud computing. |
| vCenter Site Recovery Plan & Design | Using best practices, delivers a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager that addresses business requirements and VMware vSphere dependencies. |
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| vSphere Health Check | Delivers an in depth review of your VMware vSphere environment to optimize your virtual infrastructure with concrete and actionable recommendations. Fixed Price SKU: CON-ESX-HC-AW . |
| VMware vSphere Design Review | Optimizes your vSphere virtualization platform through a detailed assessment of your current vSphere environment design and provides a gap analysis against VMware best practices. |
Technical Account Manager Program
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| VMware Technical Account Manager Program | VMware Technical Account Manager Program provide cross-functional advisors and customer advocates, backed by the full resources of the VMware organization, who partner with customers anywhere from 1, 2-1/2 or 5 days week, to help realize their success with VMware solutions, accelerate their return on VMware investments and mitigate risk.
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| VMware Dedicated, Strategic Technical Account Manager Service | Working as an extended member of the customer team, Dedicated Strategic TAMs leverage extensive implementation experience and comprehensive understanding of the customer’s environment to drive on-going success with VMware solutions on a fulltime, 5 days a week basis. |
| VMware Strategic Technical Account Manager Service | VMware Strategic Technical Account Managers (STAMs) are cross-functional advisors and customer advocates who leverage extensive implementation experience and comprehensive understanding of a customer’s environment to drive on-going success with VMware solutions, 2-1/2 days week. |
| VMware Technical Account Manager Service | VMware Technical Account Managers (TAMs) help address the tactical and operational considerations required for success with VMware solutions, 1 day/week |
VMware vFabric Consulting Service Offerings
| VMware vFabric Consulting Services Overview | VMware vFabric helps enterprise IT departments meet the challenges of delivering web-oriented, data-intensive applications ; VMware Professional Services helps transform your application development environment with best practices, vFabric solution knowledge workshops, customized solution design, configuration, and migrations and application modernization roadmaps.
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| VMware vFabric JEE to tc Server Migration Assessment Service | Provides a comprehensive current state assessment and roadmap for migrating from a JEE to a ts Server environment. |
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| VMware vFabric Hyperic Jumpstart | Provides a non-production, on-site installation and configuration of vFabric Hyperic performance monitoring and application management with a guided installation tour and interactive knowledge transfer of best practices for integrating vFabric Hyperic into your existing infrastructure.
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| VMware vFabric tc Server Jumpstart | Provides a non-production, on-site installation and configuration of vFabric tcServer with a guided installation tour, and an interactive knowledge transfer of best practices for integrating tcServer into your existing infrastructure.
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| VMware vFabric Hyperic and tc Server Jumpstart | Provides a non-production installation and basic configuration of both Hyperic and tcServer; includes knowledge transfer of best practices for integrating both Hyperic and tcServer into an existing infrastructure. |
| VMware vFabric Hyperic and vCenter Operations Enterprise – Standalone Jumpstart | Provides performance monitoring of applications running in virtualized and non-virtualized environments. VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise – Standalone provides patented analytics for a more automated approach to operations management. |
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| VMware vFabric PaaS Planning Service | Provides an efficient transition plan to Platform as a Service for application development. With guidance from vFabric consultants, you'll gain a through in-depth understanding of successful PaaS deployment factors and related process, steps, implementation and production scenarios. |
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| VMware vFabric Platform Accelerator | Offers a suite of eight service modules enabling you to accelerate your adoption and implementation of a modern application development platform by engaging vFabric consulting expertise where you need it most.
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| VMware vFabric GemFire Accelerator | Provides core knowledge, expert guidance, and a non-production installation, configuration of GemFire in your environment; including a high-level architectural review.
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| VMware Vfabric Data Director and Postgres Accelerator Service | VMware vFabric Data Director is a self-service database provisioning and operations software solution that enables DBaaS for private clouds. Data Director can manage thousands of databases while offering application developers self-service database management. vPostgres is a VMware vSphere-optimized ACID and ANSI-SQL relational database and is the first of a broad range of open source and commercial databases to be supported by Data Director.
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| VMware Application Modernization service suite | Accelerates and enhances your understanding and adoption of Spring framework and application development methodologies; includes multiple service options for a targeted engagement delivery.
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| VMware JEE to tc Server Migration Service | Provides comprehensive, end-to-end migration consulting for JEE to tc Server migration; includes planning, assessment, configuration and validation and application migration.
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| vFabric Resident Consultant | Engage a trusted, dedicated VMware Consultant whose expertise in Application Modernization can help accelerate adoption, augment your project team, and provide immediate, onsite technical advice and insights.
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| vFabric TAM | Helps address the tactical and operational considerations required for success with VMware vFabric solutions; 1 day per week. .
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| vFabric Strategic TAM (S-TAM) | A cross-functional advisor and customer advocate serves as part time extension of your strategic IT transformation team; part time, 2.5 days/week.
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| vFabric Dedicated, Strategic TAM (DS-TAM) | A cross-functional advisor and customer advocate serves as extension of your strategic IT transformation team; full-time, 5 days per week. .
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Additional Consulting Services
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| VMware Resident Program | 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. |
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VMware Consulting & Training Credits Program |
VMware Consulting and Training Credits provide a cost effective and flexible way to purchase services and education classes. Purchase VMware credits up front based on your budget cycle, and redeem for training and services when you need them. |
