vStart Solution Assistance and Consulting Service

Maximize the Benefits of Your Virtualization Initiatives

Beyond the included implementation service that sets up and provides basic configuration of your vStart solution, we highly recommend you add the vStart Solution Assistance and Consulting Service. This one-week specialized technical assistance engagement helps you integrate your vStart environment with your existing infrastructure and virtualization strategy, so you can get the maximum benefit from your vStart solution.

A vStart Solution Assistance and Consulting Service engagement includes one of four service options. Your Dell sales representative can assist you in choosing the right option for you at the time of purchase.

• Design service driven by categorization of your source workloads
  Let Dell apply its extensive virtualization experience and industry-leading architecture and design principles to an analysis of your server workloads — helping ensure that your virtualization investment is based on effective, efficient and optimum architecture and creating a standard that becomes your property and the blueprint for your enterprise growth.
• Health check of your existing virtualization platform
  In many organizations, the proven benefits of virtualization led to rapid virtualization implementation without adequate planning, strategy, policies and standards. Get peace of mind by having Dell experts analyze your existing virtualization platform, addressing such issues as configuration, security, stability and optimization. We can give you a deep understanding of the health of your virtualization environment in comparison to industry best practices.
• Workload migration planning and execution
  Slow adoption of virtualization can slow your organization’s growth and result in a drastically reduced return on investment. We can help you speed up adoption by analyzing your source workloads and providing a standardized migration process and technical procedure to help you reduce the time to value of your virtualization efforts.
• Virtualization operational readiness assessment
  For all its benefits, virtualization also brings operational challenges. It's easy to spend too much time on day-to-day operations, managing the proliferation of virtual machines, rather than focusing on strategic initiatives. We can help. We work with you to determine how you can optimize your operational processes, basing our analysis on thousands of successful Dell Services virtualization projects. You've optimized your infrastructure; now optimize your IT organization.

Let your Dell sales representative assist you in choosing the right option for you at time of purchase.

For more assistance with your virtualization initiatives, your Dell sales representative can arrange a variety of additional virtualization services.