Virtualisation Candidates – How to identify

In my post yesterday I spoke about virtualisation candidates (amongst other things) and how we now know what loads and systems are viable.  Have a look at the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool.  Its the tool for identifying candidates.  There is also a nice video demo from Baldwin Ng, showing the tool in action.  The tool will remotely gather information regarding your enterprise without installing agents.  The MAP tool then generates a candidacy report(s) that can be used to justify the investment including the hardware requirements for your virtualisation environment. 

Note: The RTM version of MAP v3.0 only includes Virtual Server 2005.  You will need MAP v3.1 Beta for Hyper-V.  Check out this posting for details on joining the beta.  It is still worth running the MAP v3.0 against your environments as virtualisation candidates should be the same regardless.