Detailed VMaudit & Analysis

The Detailed VMaudit & Analysis Package is intended for companies that have recently embraced virtualization technologies, or have recently deployed such technologies and want to refine their deployment efforts. The purpose of the audit is to align your implementation plans with best practices, identify problem areas, and improve the efficacy of your current virtualization environment.

The goals of the Detailed VMaudit & Analysis are to increase the stability and usability of your virtualization strategy, deployment and infrastructure. Upon completion of the audit your virtualization program will have clear direction on how to achieve best-in-class status, and maximize value to the business. Key elements of the Detailed VMaudit & Analysis include the following:

• Architectural Review - VMaudit.com will review your ESX hosts to develop a logical mapping of your environment. This process will gauge the overall adherence to design best practices, and document "out of band" designs that will reduce the expectations of your virtualization program.
• Standardization Analysis - This important facet guarantees standardization across all elements of the infrastructure and ensures that the VI nodes are represented as interchangeable resource aggregates. Successful completion of this effort will ease management and troubleshooting efforts in the future.
• Supportability Assessment - VMaudit.com will identify all I/O devices, server hardware details, and storage arrays, and provide a detailed report to determine the appropriate level of support to meet business SLAs.
• Configuration Review - With nearly 100 configurable settings in VMware, the need to review your current configuration can be a daunting challenge, but critical to support a successful implementation. This portion of the report checks the infrastructure components, and the virtual machine settings to ensure the most hardened environment possible.
• Security Review - VMaudit.com will evaluate your security measures and describe how to best drive select behavior. The evaluation will be applied to both the infrastructure and virtual machines to give you the ability to maximize control at the lowest risk to the environment.
• File Baselines - This helps to minimize enterprise risk by detecting unauthorized change and providing a baseline for audit.
• Performance Evaluation - An evaluation of key performance metrics will be benchmarked to expected norms to identify any resource related bottlenecks.
• Performance Tuning - The focus of this effort is to fine tune the parameters of your environment to identify and remove any performance related irregularities. To accomplish this task VMaudit.com will look at load sizing, balancing of workloads, controlling resource distribution and evaluating cluster settings for data protection.
• Remediation Plans - VMaudit.com will deliver a final report of recommendations and roadmap to succinctly address the requisite changes needed to align your virtual environment to best practices. The roadmap will prioritize our recommendations consistent with the ongoing deployment and support of your virtualization goals.
• Unlimited Email Correspondence - For a period of 4 week, VMaudit.com will respond to unlimited email questions related to our specific service. We look forward to helping you resolve your most pressing questions. Go ahead and give us a try - we look forward to the challenge.

Cost

The cost for this solution is $4,499.00 US.  Order Here