Pre-Engagement Questionnaire

This document will help our consultant better understand your current environment when performing
deployment planning services for Migrating to Hyper-V from VMware. The information you provide will assist
our consultant in planning your environment assessment and appropriately scoping the engagement.

Customer Name
Customer Address
Project Date
Customer E-mail
Customer Phone
Customer Fax
DPS Lead Consultant Name
Microsoft Account Manager Name
List Microsoft Agreements in Place (Enterprise
Agreement, NDA, Select etc.)


Current Virtualization Environment
1. Scalability Performance and Density
What is the approximate number of active virtual machines on one host?
Do you desire to have an increased number of active virtual machines on one host?
What is the maximum amount of memory allocated to a virtual machine?
What is the maximum number of processors allocated to a virtual machine?
How many nodes constitute an HA cluster?
Do you have a need for more nodes to be added to a cluster?
How many virtual machines are hosted on one cluster? Please provide maximum number.
Do you face a limitation on the maximum number of virtual machines that can be hosted on
one cluster?

What is the speed of the NICs currently in use on the host machines? (10
mbps/1Gbps/1Gbps)?


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Current Virtualization Environment
1. Scalability Performance and Density
Does your host NIC enable virtual machines to perform I/O directly to the physical network
adapter, bypassing the root partition?



Current Virtualization Environment
2. Existing VMWare Technologies in use
List the set of VMWare tools/technologies currently in use in your environment.
What is the typical consilidaiton ratio used for virtualization on the physical hosts?
What is the number of existing ESX/ESXi hosts in use in the current environment?
Do you use vCenter for centralized management of the ESX environment?
Which are the other hypervisors in use in your environment? (e.g., XenServer, Hyper-V, KVM
etc.)

What is the overall cost of the licenses purchased for all VMWare products combined?
What is the total number of Windows Servers deployed in the current environement?
Do you wish to upgrade the exsisting Windows Servers to the new Windows Server 2012 or
purchase new Windows Server 2012 licenses?

Are any of the exisitjng Windows Servers in the environment being used as Hyper-V hosts to
host virtual machines?

What is/are the major concerns/limitations seen in hosting virtual machines on Hype-V
servers in the current version of Windows Server in use?


Current Virtualization Environment
3. Storage
What is the size of native disk support in your current storage infrastructure?
(4KB/16KB/other)

What is the maximum size of a virtual hard disk you can provision for your virtual machines?
(1TB/2TB/more)

Do you have provision for encrypted cluster storage?
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Current Environment
4. Secure Multitenecy
Is your extensible switch open or closed in nature?
Do you have access to resource metering without any chargeback?

Current Environment
5. Flexible Infrustructure
What is the maximum number of live migrations you can perform over 1GB?
What is the maximum number of live migrations you can perform over 10GB?
What is the current level of familiarity with Microsoft clustering technologies in your
organization?

How often do you perform shared nothing live migrations?
Do you use Network Virtualization in your environment?

Have you currently deployed additional tools for guest OS monitoring?

Does your existing solution have provision for guest clustering with live migration capability
and dynamic memory support?

List the features in use in the current environment that are only provided in the highest SKU
of VMware vSphere 5.1? (VMware vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus)


Current Environment
6. Usability
How do you install all the products in use in the current virtualization environment? (Do you
use a unified installer for all products or independent installer?)

Do all the products integrate with each other in their functionality?
Do you have common API style for all the products in a suite?
Do you enjoy a common User Interface for all the products in the suite?
Does your current management solution provide the flexibility to manage heterogeneous
hypervisor platforms?

Does your current IT automation tool allow deployment of virtualized workloads across
heterogeneous clouds?

Do you have the capability to granularly add roles/features to existing vmdk files to create
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Current Environment
6. Usability
new templates without having to create a new vmdk for each new template each time a small
modification is required?
Which one tool in the existing suite of products allows you to have deep application insight to
the applications running in your cloud environment?


Other General Information
1. Physical and Operational Infrastructure
Total number of physical virtualization hosts.
Total number of virtual machines hosted on all virtualization hosts.
Total number of clusters.
Number of highly available virtual machines in use.
Make and models of the SAN infrastructure in use

2. List all the hypervisors currently in use.
3. Any physical to virtual (P2V) conversions planned.

Detailed Information
Include any network diagrams, asset lists, application details, or data referred to in the preceding
questionnaire. These can be provided as separate documents, they do not need to be provided with in this
document.











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