70 2 Best Practices at Planning, Prototyping, Migrating, and Deploying Windows Ser ver 2008 Hyper-V . Create a scope of work detailing the servers that you want to virtualize. . Define high-level organizational goals. . Define departmental goals. . Determine which components and capabilities of the network are most important and how they contribute to or hinder the goals expressed by the different units. . Clearly define the technical goals of the project on different levels (50,000-foot, 10,000-foot, 1,000-foot, and so on). The Discovery Phase . Review and evaluate the existing environment to make sure the network foundation in place will support the new virtualized. | 70 2 Best Practices at Planning Prototyping Migrating and Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Create a scope of work detailing the servers that you want to virtualize. Define high-level organizational goals. Define departmental goals. Determine which components and capabilities of the network are most important and how they contribute to or hinder the goals expressed by the different units. Clearly define the technical goals of the project on different levels 50 000-foot 10 000-foot 1 000-foot and so on . The Discovery Phase Review and evaluate the existing environment to make sure the network foundation in place will support the new virtualized environment. Make sure the existing environment is configured the way you think it is and identify existing areas of exposure or weakness in the network. Define the current network stability and performance measurements and operation. Use external partners to produce more thorough results and predict the problems that may emerge midway through a project and become showstoppers. Start the discovery process with onsite interviews. Review and evaluate every affected device and application to help determine its role in the new environment. Maintain and protect business-critical information. Determine where data resides what file stores and databases are out there how the data is maintained and whether it is safe. The Design Phase Create a design document including the salient points of the discussion the reasons the project is being invested in the scope of the project and the details of what the results will look like. Create a migration document providing the road map showing how the end state will be reached. Use a consultant with hands-on experience designing and implementing Windows 2008 Hyper-V virtualization to provide leadership through this process. Determine what hardware and software will be needed for the migration. Determine how many server software licenses will be required. Detail the level of redundancy and .
