Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V

As many of you know, the much-anticipated Hyper-V hypervisor feature was just released last week. Many of the IT professionals like you have now began to use Hyper-V server virtualization technology to take back the control of your datacenter. With energy costs going sky high and the demand for IT services increasing, no wonder many of you are now looking to consolidate the physical servers using virtualization.

With server consolidation being the direction to go, we are pleased to announce the RTM of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V.

What is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1?

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 (or MAP) is a network-wide agent-less tool that can help you quickly find out where your desktops and servers are as well as auto-generate upgrade recommendations for multiple products and technologies including server, desktop and virtualization migration scenarios covering:

· Hyper-V virtualization candidates assessment (New in MAP 3.1)

· SQL server discovery and assessment (New in MAP 3.1)

· Desktop Security Center assessment (New in MAP 3.1)

· Windows Server 2008 hardware and device compatibility assessment including server discovery

· Windows Vista hardware and device compatibility assessment including PC discovery

· Office 2007 hardware compatibility assessment

· Microsoft Application Virtualization hardware compatibility assessment

· SNMP inventory reporting

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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V As many of you know, the much-anticipated Hyper-V