CCO's consultants have been working virtualization technologies for over a decade with consultants on staff with VMware and Hyper-V expertise.
Some of the services provided by Convergent Computing relative to server virtualization technologies include:
- Choosing between VMware and Hyper-V (pros, cons, features, functions)
- Architecting a virtualization hosted environment (server placement, host server sizing, server configuration recommendations)
- Assessing existing servers and providing an analysis of which servers can be virtualized and which servers are not recommended to be virtualized
- Identifying server consolidation strategy for not only taking physical servers to virtual servers, but also consolidate / eliminate excessive servers
- Implementing VMware or Hyper-V host servers using best practices for tuning and optimization
- Performing Physical to Virtual, and Virtual to Virtual conversion of servers into virtual guest images
- Tuning and optimizing virtual guest sessions
- Implementing host server and guest session redundancy (failover clustering, V/Motion, Quick migration, Live migration)
- Implementation and best practice training on the use of management components (VI3, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008)
- Knowledge transfer training on best practices at managing and administering a virtualized environment
CCO's credentials around server virtualization:
- Implemented multiple VMware host servers, V/Motion, and a full VI3 managed environment for a major government agency with full redundancy and failover recovery of Windows, Linux, and Novell guest server sessions
- CCO's consultants authored the #1 selling book in the world on Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V titled "Hyper-V Unleashed" that has 4 chapters on System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. This book is based on over 18-months of early adopter implementations of Hyper-V in production environments