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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| Cloud Migration Workshop | Outlines the architectural roadmap on the IT strategy to achieve the value of the Software-defined Data Center by understanding business objectives, challenges, and requirements. |
| 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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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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 |
| Compliance Design and Deploy Service | Covers the entire process of specifying, designing, implementing and validating your compliance solution with vCenter Configuration Manager |
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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. |
