Microsoft Database Consolidation Appliance Recommendations

This assessment offers detailed deployment and sizing recommendations based on key performance metrics and detailed hardware specifications of each server that the Microsoft® Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool inventoried across the network.

This assessment includes a report only.

Windows 7 Hardware Assessment

Summarizes the readiness of computers on your network for migration to Windows 7. Indicates which computers already meet the hardware requirements for Windows 7, describes any hardware or BIOS upgrades you should complete before migration, and addresses the compatibility of the devices installed on each computer.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Windows 8 Hardware Assessment

Summarizes the readiness of computers on your network for migration to Windows 8. Indicates which computers already meet the hardware requirements for Windows 8.

This assessment includes a report and a proposal.

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hardware Assessment

Summarizes the hardware readiness of servers for a migration to Windows Server® 2008 R2 and indicates whether they are capable of running Windows Server® 2008 R2.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Windows Server® 2012 Hardware Assessment

Summarizes the hardware readiness of servers for a migration to Windows Server® 2012 and indicates whether they are capable of running Windows Server® 2012.

This assessment includes a report and a proposal.

Microsoft® SQL Server® Discovery

Summarizes SQL Server® components installed in your environment, indicates how they map to components in SQL Server® 2012, and describes any guidance and best practices for migrating those components.

The MAP toolkit also generates a SQL Server® Database Details report, which provides detailed information about various SQL Server® instances running in your network. This report also shows which databases are installed on each instance. You can use the information in this report to consolidate SQL Server® instances or databases in your environment.

This assessment includes reports and a proposal.

MySQL, Oracle and Sybase Discovery

Identifies Windows and Linux computers running MySQL, Oracle and Sybase databases. It will also discover Oracle servers that are installed on HP-UX. This information can be used to assess your environment for migrating to Microsoft® SQL Server®.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Hardware, Software Summary and Machine Inventory Results

The Hardware and Software Summary report provides a view of all computers running Windows, Linux and HP-UX operating systems. It also provides details about all applications installed on Windows-based computers and LAMP stack applications installed in Linux platforms.

The Inventory Results report provides a view of all computers discovered or provided by the user as well as asset tracking information and other hardware details.

This assessment includes two reports.

Internet Explorer Discovery

Provides details about Internet Explorer and Non-Microsoft® browsers deployed in your environment. This report also provides information about the Internet Explorer Add-ons deployed in your environment.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Virtual Machine Discovery

Identifies and provides detailed information about physical computers and the virtual machines running on them.  It covers Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft® Hyper-V technology, and VMware virtualization platforms.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Microsoft® Office 2010 Assessment

Summarizes the readiness of each inventoried client computer for migration to Microsoft® Office 2010. Describes the Microsoft® Office products installed on each computer, and the version(s) that are installed.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Office 365 Client Readiness

Summarizes the overall readiness of the client machines for an upgrade to Office 365. Describes the Microsoft® Office products installed on each computer and the version(s) that are installed.

This assessment includes a report only.

Performance Metrics Report

This report is generated from data using the Performance Metrics Wizard. It provides detailed statistics and information discovered during performance monitoring of selected servers. The statistics are provided for processor, network, memory, physical disk, and logical disk utilization for each selected server. The report is provided so you can ensure that performance monitoring completed successfully and to validate the performance collection statistics.

This assessment includes a report only.

Server Consolidation Recommendations

This assessment is generated using data from the Server Consolidation Wizard. It provides detailed information about the host machine configured in the wizard, consolidation recommendations based on that model, utilization of servers before and after virtualization, and why particular physical computers may not have been placed on the host.

This assessment includes a report and proposal as well as an XML file that can be used along with the Microsoft Private Cloud Economics Tool.

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Consolidation

This assessment offers detailed deployment and sizing recommendations based on key performance metrics and detailed hardware specifications of each server that the Microsoft® Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool inventoried across the network.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Security Assessment

Provides an overview of NAP within Windows Server® 2008 and Forefront® Client Security, and describes the benefits it can specifically provide for your IT environment. Also presents an assessment of computers running a client operating system and your server environment in terms of readiness to support NAP and Forefront® Client Security.

This assessment includes a report and proposal.

Legacy Windows Server Inventory Report

Provides details about computers running the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 operating systems in your environment. The report provides information about the applications installed on each computer and lists their current roles. This report also displays servers running on Itanium hardware as Windows support for this platform has ended with Windows Server 2008 R2.

This assessment includes a report only.

Web Application and Database Discovery

Inventories web applications and SQL Server® database instances in your environment and reports information that will help you plan for the migration of on-premises workloads to Windows Azure Platform.

This assessment includes a report only.

Windows Thin PC Assessment

Summarizes the readiness of computers on your network to repurpose for your VDI environment using Windows Thin PC. Indicates which computers already meet the hardware requirements and addresses the compatibility of the devices installed on each computer.

This assessment includes a report only.

Desktop Virtualization Planning

Summarizes and compares the number of host machines needed to host your Remote Desktop Session based and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environments.

This assessment includes a report only.