Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd537570.aspx?SA_CE=NOT-MAP-BLOG-MAPBLOG-2009-10-15

MAP Toolkit can be downloaded for FREE!!
I Wish, I had this tools a few months back.. So, I would not have to work my a#s off to get assessment report for my Boss regarding servers consolidation or upgrade planning

What Is the MAP Toolkit?

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents. This versatile toolkit:

• Quickly discovers clients, servers, and applications across your IT environment.
• Conducts migration and virtualization assessments for your IT projects.
• Auto-generates reports and proposals.
• Scales well to small businesses as well as large enterprises.

Get Reports and Proposals for Migration to Hyper-V

Accelerate your migration to Hyper-V with MAP Toolkit’s planning capabilities, and start realizing the benefits of virtualization. With MAP you get the following reports and proposals for Hyper-V migration:

• Server Consolidation Proposal. Summarizes the readiness assessments for Hyper-V, provides benefits of Hyper-V, and recommends a list of underutilized servers for consolidation using Hyper-V.
• Server Consolidation Report. Provides a detailed inventory of the servers on your network and the potential efficiency gained by consolidating them into fewer physical servers using Hyper-V.
• Power Savings Calculator and Proposal. Uncovers the potential savings and benefits of virtualization via Hyper-V.

You can Download it here.