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Apparatus Hyper-V Services

Apparatus engineers have experience designing, building, and operating Hyper-V environments running inside Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. We currently work with a wide array of clients ranging from small to medium-sized deployments of Hyper-V in single-site configurations clients running Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

We can provide a full complement of Hyper-V products and support services including:

Design
  • Requirements gathering
  • Proof-of-Concept
  • Virtual network layout
  • Physical network changes (if applicable)
  • Shared storage requirements
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • Hyper-V Backup Strategy
  • Best practices for cluster shared volumes
  • Best practices for PRO Tips
  • Best practices for live migration
  • Server consolidation plan (if applicable)—includes physical-to-virtual (P2V) migrations
  • Virtual server build process (using VM templates)
  • Architecture diagrams
Delivery
  • Create detailed installation and configuration documentation for hardware and software platforms
  • Install and configure physical hosts running Hyper-V in a secure manner
  • Attach hosts to shared SAN storage
  • Install and configure System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • Integration with existing Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
  • Configure virtual networks
  • Assist with building VM templates (if needed)
  • Customize System Center Virtual Machine Manager roles and permissions based on client requirements
  • Provide end user support and training
  • Day-to-day support of overall environment (adding datastores, migrating VMs, performing hardware maintenance on hosts, adding virtual networks, etc.)
  • Creating/Deleting VMs
  • Managing resource capacity (physical CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.)
Upgrades & Migrations
  • Hyper-V Manager to System Center Virtual Machine Manager (for High Availability)
  • Physical hardware upgrades
Credentials & Experience
  • Work performed by Microsoft Certified Professionals on the Hyper-V Suite of software
  • Microsoft Gold Partner
  • Microsoft Silver Competency in Systems Management
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