The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is an agentless tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
MAP Toolkit also includes new features for gathering performance metrics from computers you are considering for consolidation. Using the performance metrics and a model virtual server host computer, you can generate reports that recommend placement of the physical servers in a virtual server environment.
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What's New in This Release:
Server virtualization and consolidation feature enhancements including:
· The ability to customize Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Configurations
· The ability to set utilization thresholds for virtualization hosts and infrastructure
· Enhanced UI controls that allows users to quickly find, filter, and select the list of machines targeted for virtualization
· Capacity planning for migrating SQL Servers to Microsoft Database Consolidation Appliance
· Additional in-depth migration analysis of applications to the Windows Azure Platform
· Windows Azure Migration proposal that provides guidance on migrating the specified application to Windows Azure based on the MAP Toolkit assessment and Azure survey questions
· Software Usage Tracking for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
· Discovery and reporting of "active devices" running the Windows Operating System
· Discovery and reporting of SQL Server 2012
· Discovery and reporting of Oracle Instances on HP-UX-based Itanium servers
· Enhancements to ...