Other Essential Knowledge

This section highlights a few other topics that we strongly recommend that you learn more about.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Microsoft released and has continued to improve the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) to help engineers and consultants get off to a good start with their deployment projects. MAP (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb977556.aspx) is a free tool that is used to scan and assess an existing environment. In the context of planning a Hyper-V project, it will do the following:

  • Discover physical and virtual machines (including Hyper-V, vSphere, and ESXi)
  • Use this data to identify the machines that could possibly be converted into Hyper-V virtual machines (candidates)

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