VMware Optimization by Seamless

Why You Need the VMware Health Check Service by Seamless

The VMware Health Check Service from Seamless, examines the VMware infrastructure that supports an organization’s global production environment. The Seamless Professional Services Team validates technical consistency, examines the use of good practices, and identifies areas where potential system degradation and bottlenecks can impact system health.

The VMware Health Check Service identifies gaps in current practices and areas of concern. Seamless also provides remediation recommendations. These topics are discussed during follow-up workshops, and formalized recommendations are documented and presented at the conclusion of the engagement.

Throughout the engagement, your IT Support Team will benefit from the knowledge transfer and whiteboard discussions with the Seamless Professional Services Team. Your IT Support Team will learn VMware best practices, implementation insights, and the impact of the environment design on performance and manageability. At the conclusion of the engagement, you will have an actionable, prioritized roadmap of recommended changes.

VMware Health Check Service will:

  • Deliver a best practice assessment of the Client’s existing VMware deployed environment.
  • Provide insights into Client’s VMware environment.
  • Apply VMware best practices.
  • Review how the environment has been optimized for performance, scaling, and manageability.

VMware Health Check Service is ideal for organization that wants to:

  • Optimize the Client’s VMware environment.
  • Maximize resources through more efficient use and creating a roadmap for future improvements.
  • Help mitigate risk by leveraging proven good practices.
  • Validate the environment in preparation for an audit or review.
  • Complete a pre-production design review.
  • Perform a proactive, diagnostic Health Check to maintain a highly optimized environment.
  • Identify configuration changes to improve.

About the Seamless Professional Services Team
The Seamless Professional Services Team consists of Engineers that are VMware certified, Architects that develop VMware design options in conjunction with VMware best practices and methodologies to ensure consistency and the highest level of infrastructure performance.

 VMware Health Check | Optimization SAS Client
Customer Requirements Gathering Phase   
Hold meeting with Client to collect and document business requirements, technical requirements, business constraints and technical constraints of the assessment. ✓
Gather and review current documentation of the data center equipment. ✓
Gather and review current documentation of the physical environment. ✓
Gather and review current logical configuration standards. ✓
Gather and review current physical installation and operational standards. ✓
Virtual Infrastructure Health Check
Document your Virtual Infrastructure. ✓
Analyze your environment and recommend a technical improvement plan (TIP) to help you focus on a targeted course of action. ✓
Address technical concerns that are impacting day-to-day operational efficiency. ✓
Work with Client to implement best practices that increase operational stability and help prevent future problems. ✓
Optimize ✓
 – Compute Virtualization ✓
 – Tier 1 Application Virtualization ✓
 – High Availability for VMs ✓
 – BCDR / Site Recovery for VMs ✓
 – Converged Infrastructure ✓
 – Capacity Management ✓
 – Rapid Application Development ✓
 – Predictability ✓
 – Application-to-Infrastructure Mapping ✓
 – Benchmarking ✓
Documentation
Provide Client with the documentation detailing the result of the data center discovery exercise. This may include, but is not limited to, diagrams, inventory lists, configuration information, application infrastructure mapping, etc. ✓
 Assumptions SAS Client
Virtual Infrastructure Health Check 
Client to provide remote access to the Client’s engineering team to conduct assessment. ✓
Client to provide access to the Client’s engineering team to collect information on current configuration, and define any business requirements that will impact the project. ✓
Client to provide copy of all documentation (physical, standards, configuration etc.) relating to data center infrastructure. ✓
Client to provide the SAS engineering staff necessary access to any administration/management tools. ✓
Client to provide access to the Client’s engineering team to answer questions on application topologies. ✓
The PST Engineering staff may run discovery tools on Client’s environment. ✓ ✓
Client to provide access to the Client’s engineering team to collect any current logical and physical configurations. ✓
Client to provide an IP address for SAS tools laptop, seed router IP address, SNMP community string, validation of change control documentation, validation of notification of network security department, and any scheduling information defined by Client. ✓
Discovery agent and necessary supporting infrastructure to be allowed to run for minimum of two week up to two months on Client’sinfrastructure. ✓
Client to provide site specific information such as Equipment floor pans (data center, server farms, wiring closets), Building wiring diagram and Site cable plan. ✓
Documentation
Client to provide remote engineering resource to provide the required information. ✓
SAS will work with in conjunction with Client’s engineering resources to gather the required information. ✓ ✓