Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Choosing an Assessment Option

You have two very interesting sets of tools for assessing the physical servers on your network and producing data to start sizing and architecting your Hyper-V architecture.

MAP is free, is quick to get up and running, and is agent-less. It is capable of producing excellent proposals for management and ROI analysis for the accountants. Because of how it collects performance metrics, it is probably best used for relatively short time frames only.

System Center gives incredible technical information. It understands that averages can be misleading. Existing installations can produce information from more than a year of data that reflects the seasonal peaks and valleys in demand for server resources. This allows technical ...