VMware

VMware’s Authorized Consultant (VAC) Services

Do your customers have an excess of server capacity? Are they experiencing uncontrollable server sprawl? Are they confident with their Disaster Recovery plans? Do you want to provide your customers with a solution but don’t know how? Don’t worry — Alternative Technology can help you. 

Alternative Technology qualifies as Gold certified VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) partner and is committed to making a deep investment in the virtualization services market with VMware. Our expert engineers, who are fully trained in VMware services, offer superior services delivery capabilities and are adept at delivering large, complex virtualization solutions. Our VMware services include VI3, VDI, Lab Manager, Capacity Planning, Jumpstarts and Health Checks. 

Benefits to the VAR:

  • VARs have no need for their own VMware certified engineers, but can instead employ an Alternative Technology VAC engineer to work on their behalf at end user sites.
  • Use the AAPP vouchers for Alternative Technology engineering services.
  • Gain a competitive advantage using Alternative Technology engineers to complete Virtualization assessments by using the industry leading Capacity Planner tool that is only available to certified VMware partners. 
  • Customize a Capacity Planner guide with your logo, available for download here. 

Example of VAC services: VMware Capacity Planner

With VMware Capacity Planner, Alternative Technology engineers can assist customers in developing a virtualization roadmap for server containment and consolidation. VMware Capacity Planner is an IT capacity planning tool that collects comprehensive resource utilization data in heterogeneous IT environments, and then compares it to industry standard reference data to provide analysis and decision support modeling. 

Professional services based on VMware Capacity Planner can help VARs:

  • Identify customer’s consolidation opportunities through assessment of their IT infrastructure, including comprehensive performance metrics. 
  • Monitor customer’s resource utilization through anomaly detection and threshold alerts.
  • Compare customer’s application characteristics with industry standard data to detect anomalies. 
  • Plan for customer’s capacity optimization based on a detailed utilization analysis and benchmarks. 
  • Model various scenarios and impact analysis for the customer in order to enable rapid decision-making. 
  • Deliver an optimal solution for each unique customer.
How VMware Capacity Planner Works

Data sheet: AT-VAR VMware Capacity Planner.pdf