Microsoft offers a free tool for virtualization capacity planning
April 22, 2008 (Virtualization.info)
One of the most complex tasks in any virtualization project is recognizing the best candidates for P2V migrations and correctly mixing their workloads into the new virtualization hosts. virtualization.info rates the capacity planning as the third biggest challenge in virtualization adoption since 2007.
A very limited amount of competitors offer products in this space: VMware (with its Capacity Planner), Novell (with PlateSpin PowerRecon) and CiRBA (with its Data Center Intelligence).
A free of charge alternative surprisingly comes from Microsoft which never advertised the product: Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP).
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