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With vSphere 5.0 you can no
longer deploy the ESX hypervisor so you need to
plan your migration to ESXi. In addition many
new features have been introduced, but as with
previous releases, a simple "out of the box"
upgrade will not take advantage of them.
The vSphere 5.0 upgrade
service has been designed to allow organisations
to perform a well planned upgrade, while also
taking full advantage of the performance , availability,
security and management enhancements.
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| DELIVERABLES |
- Production of detailed upgrade plan setting
out all requirements and deliverables
- Review of VMware vSphere 5.0 architectural
changes and new features
- Configuration of hardware assisted CPU and
memory management, and array integration
- Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 5.0 and deployment
of Update Manager
- Upgrade of hosts to VMware vSphere 5.0 ESXi,
and VM hardware and VMware Tools
- Deployment of vSphere Management Assistant
(vMA) to support legacy scripts/agents
- Deployment of optimised paravirtualised network
and storage drivers
- Upgrade of VMFS datastores and thin provisioning
of disks to reclaim wasted space
- Migration from standard vSwitch to Distributed
vSwitch (requires Enterprise Plus)
- Deployment of vCenter Operations (eval) to
provide performance & capacity management
- Configuration of selected VMware vSphere 5.0
features and knowledge transfer
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| BENEFITS |
- Accelerate moving to VMware vSphere 5.0 ESXi
with a well planned upgrade
- Mitigate risk by leveraging experienced consultants
and proven best practices
- Enhance performance with ESXi host and virtual
machine optimisation
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the new
features of VMware vSphere 5.0
- Deploy relevant new features with full knowledge
transfer
- Gain detailed implementation and troubleshooting
documentation
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