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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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Datacenter Services

 
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.
Strategy & Operations Services

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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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VMware View Jumpstart

Provides detailed knowledge transfer workshops and a fully functional demonstration environment running on non-production hardware to demonstrate VMware 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.
VMware 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 allows for up to 25 users to experience the pilot environment, representing a production environment of up to 500 users for the same use case. Available in basic, standard, and premium service options.
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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.
VMware View Plan & Design Delivers a  comprehensive VMware 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.

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Virtualization Management Services

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VMware vCenter Operations Management Accelerator Service Lays the foundation to effectively and efficiently manage virtual and cloud environments by establishing the vCenter Operations Management Solution tailored to performance, capacity and configuration management business requirements.
vCenter Protect Accelerator Service
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Support your implementation of VMware vCenter Protect through a knowledge transfer workshop and installation in a pre-production environment.
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VMware AppSpeed Implementation Service Implements vCenter AppSpeed in your production environment to enable you to quickly determine problems and set alerts when issues arise
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Implementation Service Includes the implementation of vCenter Configuration Manager to create a customized system to track changes to critical files and directories on targeted systems to meet IT audit requirements.
vCenter Configuration Manager - File Integrity Automated Reporting Service Leverages vCenter Configuration Manager to create a customized system to track changes to critical files and directories on targeted systems to meet audit requirements.
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager -Windows Patching Automation Service Leverages vCenter Configuration Manager to automate the patch distribution process in complex Windows environments.
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager -Compliance Automation Service Leverages vCenter Configuration Manager to define custom compliance rules and templates to monitor  server and workstation environment per audit and compliance standards.
VMware vCenter Operations Management Installation Service Install and configure vCenter Enterprise Standalone product to monitor key applications in production

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VMware vCloud Consulting Service Offerings

VMware Cloud Computing Services VMware Professional Services helps customers maximize the benefits of their virtual infrastructure investments, accelerate the move to a cloud computing model, and address the business implications of shared computing resources.
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VMware vCloud Jumpstart Provides knowledge transfer workshops and "hands on" product installation, configuration and usage demonstrations for the vCloud solution
VMware vCloud Accelerator Service - Standard and Advanced Rapidly delivers a functioning VMware vCloud computing environment suitable for deploying applications in a limited scale, pre-production environment.  Assuming all pre-requisites are met VMware estimates it can complete this service engagement in 30 business days or less.
VMware vCloud Accelerator – Lab Manager Transition This service is targeted at existing VMware vCenter Lab Manager customers who have a significant Lab Manager environment deployed and are planning a transition to vCloud Director.
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VVMware vCloud Plan & Design Provides a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCloud that addresses your unique business requirements and operational demands, helping customers pave the way to cloud computing. This Service is designed for enterprises with a well-established vSphere based virtualization strategy for production workloads and are ready to take the next step toward building their production cloud infrastructure.

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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.
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

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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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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.

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.

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