Brief
Gain accurate insights into
client virtualization
HP Client Virtualization Analysis and Modeling Service
Managing a successful
client virtualization
implementation
If you expect your client virtualization
implementation project to be successful,
you first need to understand the current
load and usage characteristics of your
existing physical desktops. That means
you need to have an accurate understanding
of application usage and resource usage,
which includes CPU, memory, and disk
input/output.
Here’s what to avoid: an assumption that
the testing guidelines from software vendors
apply to your own environment.
If you make that assumption, you
may wind up investing significant
capital expenditures into a supporting
infrastructure, only to discover—often too
late in the implementation cycle—that
the infrastructure does not meet your
performance requirements.
•Planning for desktop operating system
images required to virtualize desktops
•Greater understanding of application usage
•Identification of applications that could pose
challenges for your virtualization project
Once the HP Client Virtualization Analysis
and Modeling Service is complete, you'll
be presented with a series of reports and
recommendations for a properly planned
and sized virtualization project.
Ask the right questions first
As you grapple with questions regarding
virtualization, the HP Client Virtualization
and Modeling Service empowers you with
answers focused on the key aspects of your
project. This service provides:
Application and workload insights
•What applications and workloads do you
have in the end-user environment?
•Which applications would thrive in a
virtualized environment?
•How many virtual machines do you
need to support the virtualization of the
current workload, taking into account
user need, time of day, and geography,
among other factors?
Migration
•What is the best path to go from a
traditional to a virtualized environment
without disrupting operations?
Management
•How do you manage the resulting physical
and virtual servers in your data center?
Eliminate the guesswork
Understanding your current environment
and properly planning for virtualization are
the keys to success. That’s exactly what the
HP Client Virtualization and Modeling Service
helps you do.
During the five-week service engagement,
we work with you to deliver information
specific to your environment. This
information will help you:
Now HP offers you a better approach:
the HP Client Virtualization Analysis and
Modeling Service. It provides comprehensive
pre-virtualization analysis, modeling, and
planning support for your enterprise and
data centers.
•Which applications would be difficult
to virtualize?
User insights
•Which user environments could be
successfully virtualized?
•Identify suitable and unsuitable
applications, users, and systems
for virtualization
Get it right, right from
the start
Virtualization options
•How many desktop images would
you need?
In addition, as we work with you to model
the virtualized environment, we gather data
used to calculate:
•What other virtualization options
should you consider?
•Predicted data/time-based demand
Instead of relying on sizing and performance
models developed in a virtualization vendor’s
lab, the HP Client Virtualization Analysis
and Modeling Service is designed to assist
you with:
•Analysis of the Microsoft® Windows® client
devices in your environment
•Capacity planning and resource modeling
based on your needs
•Understand user behavior and how it drives
application resource requirements
•Auto-detected work week and breaks
--Personality/profile virtualization
•Cooperative loads for load leveling
--Application virtualization
•Resources including CPU, memory,
disk, and network
Capacity
•How much CPU, memory, and I/O are your
users currently using at their desktops?
•Operating system and service pack
•Application demand and commonality
among users
Brief
Graphical, time-based models can show results for CPU, memory, disk, and network load
•Volatility in modeled data
Analysis and Modeling Service, you acquire:
•User-specific growth and confidence
requirements
•Comprehensive service offerings from
expert service professionals: From
assessment to design to implementation
and support, we provide leadership
services for the data center, network, and
client infrastructure to help ensure project
success. Our team of service professionals
brings you deep expertise. We’ve completed
thousands of transformation projects
and lead hundreds of best-practices
implementations.
These considerations during modeling
result in a final set of service deliverables
that include:
•Summary report, including a short
document or presentation summarizing
the HP service's findings
•User grouping report, pinpointing user
profiles based on system and application
usage
•Virtualization report, identifying a
high-level plan for desktop virtualization
•Virtual desktop infrastructure hardware
and software report, featuring a
presentation to identify high-level hardware
and software for moving forward with a
pilot program
Count on real value from HP
HP has been a leader in virtualization
since the beginning, having trained tens
of thousands of people and supported
thousands of virtualization projects. We offer
you the resources of a big company—with
the care and attention of a small one. We
can help you at every stage of your move
to a virtualized client infrastructure. When
you engage with the HP Client Virtualization
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The HP Client Virtualization Analysis and
Modeling service is part of a portfolio of
HP Mobility Services designed to enable
your organization to increase business
agility by embracing mobile workstyles.
Mobility enables new levels of interaction
and collaboration, which increase the ability
to make decisions based on real-time
data, allowing your users to affect change
instantly, through new and compelling
productivity experiences.
•Ability to provide end-to-end solutions:
HP offers market-leading products for
every component of the client architecture,
including thin clients, remote display
software, server hardware, storage
solutions, virtualization software,
client automation software, application
transformation, and integration services.
•Greater flexibility: We take a collaborative
approach, working with you the way you
want to tailor client infrastructure solutions
to your specific needs. Whether you’re
approaching client transformation from a
cost-reduction or control perspective, we
can help you meet your goals.
•Best-in-class partnerships: HP has close
working relationships with leading vendors
in the virtualization and desktop space.
We are a proven global system integrator
for Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, and Lakeside
Software, Inc.
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