Accelerate Your Migration to SQL Server 2008
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services, enabling you to:
- Create and deploy data-driven solutions quickly.
- Bring the highest level of security, reliability, and scalability for your business-critical applications.
- Deliver intelligence where your users want it.
- Do more with your data.
Mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 has expired, making the need for a quick migration to SQL Server 2008, and its robust features, critical. But locating and discovering SQL Server instances on your legacy database is a labor-intensive task that can result in a slower, more costly migration process. Identify SQL Server instances in a simple, yet cost-effective way, using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit.
The MAP Toolkit has created a new collection mechanism that locates these hard-to-find SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 database instances. Through the use of its network-wide assessment engine and agentless inventory mechanism, the MAP Toolkit reports SQL Server instances and their SKU and version information in just a few hours, making it easier for you to collectively understand your install base of database servers.
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 SQL Server 2008
Get a complete network-wide inventory of legacy SQL Server instances, edition identification, and hardware assessment, when you use MAP as part of a comprehensive process for planning and migrating legacy SQL Server instances to SQL Server 2008.
With MAP you get the following reports and proposals for migration to SQL Server 2008:
- Discovery and inventory. Identifies the various SQL Server instances in your organization.
- Detailed reporting. Covers specific SQL Server instances that include component name, version, edition, and more.
- Hardware and platform details. Details for computers that are running SQL Server instances including determining whether the machines are virtual or physical.
- Identification and evaluation. Determines which existing SQL Server deployments are suitable for migration to SQL Server 2008 based on hardware and platform requirements.
It’s Free! Download the MAP Toolkit Now