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Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Migration Consulting Service

Overview

Pre-Assessment

The Nutanix P2V Migration Service provides you with onsite

migration of physical hosts to virtual machines on an existing
Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform running either VMware
vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Provides best-practice & rapid P2V migrations, complete

with change management, OS cleanup and application
validation
Leverage experienced consultants to mitigate deployment
risk and accelerate value creation.
Complete knowledge transfer & site documentation

Scope

Review environment and project goals

Validate all pre-requisites are in place and to
specification
Make recommendations if pre-requisites are not in place

Deliverables

Benefits

Requirements gathering/project planning

P2V Conversion
Clean up of each Guest OS
Post Migration performance tuning of VMs
Draft site documentation & architecture diagrams

Optional Add-on scope

Requirements Gathering/project Planning

P2V Conversion
o 5 parallel migrations
o Max of 10 migrations per day
o Convert each FS partition into dedicated virtual
disk
Clean up of each Guest OS
o Remove invalid drivers, management software,
missing physical devices that are still tracked in
the OS
Post Migration performance tuning of VMs
o Add/remove vCPUs
o Add/remove RAM
o Para virtualized drivers where possible
Draft site documentation & architecture diagrams

Prep hypervisor to include any network or security Site Documentation

requirements of the physical hosts
Spreadsheet of hosts/IPs, locations, function, user IDs
Pricing
Word document summarizing:
o Scope of project and deliverables
Priced per host
o Design choices/rational
Optional add-ons: call for pricing
o Architecture (Visio Diagrams)
T&E extra
Support/Troubleshooting Cheat Sheet
Tasks and Deliverables
Pre-requisites
Task
Responsibility
Existing Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform with either
Project Kickoff
All
vSphere or Hyper-V
At least 1Gbps end-to-end network bandwidth
P2V Conversion
Nutanix
Full backups of physical servers before migration
Guest OS Cleanup and Tuning
Nutanix
Maintenance window to handle migration
Wrap-up
All

About Nutanix Global Services

The Nutanix Global Services (GSO) delivers a strong influence on the success of each Nutanix implementation by its customers. Nutanix Services ensures success by
engaging with customers in pre-sales and post-sales stages by assisting in their in their Web-Scale IT strategy and architecture. Besides helping customers implement
Nutanix products successfully, the Nutanix Services, working with our service provider partners, ensures customer success in fully implementing their virtualized and
software-defined data centers. The Nutanix Global Services (GSO) delivers a portfolio of productized services that includes Consulting, Education and Customer
Advocacy.
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