IBM Hardware Pack for Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Version 1.1

IBM Hardware Pack for Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Version 1.1 helps to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right resources for your IT needs. The tool provides guidance on consolidating workloads with Microsoft virtualization technologies on IBM System x and BladeCenter servers which can help increase utilization of your hardware, making your operations more efficient and helping you save money.

Key Features Include:

• Discovers systems to analyze manually or automatically
• Performs a secure assessment of Microsoft Windows environments without the use of any software agents
• Gathers performance metrics and generates server consolidation recommendations that identify candidates for server virtualization and how physical servers might be placed in a virtualized environment
• Provides information on IBM System x® and BladeCenter® servers which are ideally suited for virtualized Microsoft environments and IBM best practices tips

Reference Material included for:

• IBM System x3250 M3 (4251, 4252)
• IBM System x3550 M2 (7946)
• IBM System x3650 M2 (7947)
• IBM System x3755 (7163)
• IBM System x3850 M2 (7141, 7233)
• IBM System x3950 M2 (7141, 7233)
• IBM BladeCenter HS22 (7870)
• IBM BladeCenter LS42 (7902)
  

Supported Microsoft Versions:

• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 4.0
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Additional information

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 4.0
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
• Please refer to the following link for Microsoft MAP installation requirements:
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297228.aspx