In The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011, we found that just 42% of those who had deployed Hyper-V had done an assessment. My own experiences reveal an interesting trend: those who have architectural, support, or performance issues with their deployment have not done an assessment. They stuck a wet finger in the air, guessed at an infrastructure sizing and design, and their customer\/employer paid the price.<\/p>\n
By the way, the best VMware consultants will kick of the project using some assessment.<\/em><\/p>\n The tool for a Hyper-V assessment is MAP, and Microsoft recently launched version 6.5 of it. This new release adds:<\/p>\n What\u2019s nice about MAP is that you can assess even a large environment with just a small amount of effort. You have empirical data that can scientifically calculate your environment. From a Hyper-V perspective, this sizing is difficult to do without an assessment. In fact, it would be a complete guess without something like the free<\/em> MAP. If you do the assessment then at least you and your customer (internal or external) can be sure that you did a scientific calculation that has some sort of backing instead of just assuming<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n In The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011, we found that just 42% of those who had deployed Hyper-V had done an assessment. My own experiences reveal an interesting trend: those who have architectural, support, or performance issues with their deployment have not done an assessment. They stuck a wet finger in the air, guessed … Continue reading “Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 Available”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[76,195,108],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-map","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n