VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Readiness Assessment Guide

This guide outlines a remote engagement service designed to assess a customer's infrastructure, operations, and technical readiness for deploying or upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9). The primary objective of the assessment is to identify gaps, risks, and necessary remediations across compute, storage, network, and management domains. The assessment includes a comprehensive discovery and data collection phase, a hardware and software compatibility review, and a network and security assessment. It also features a gap analysis and risk identification process to compare the current environment against VCF 9 specifications. The outcome of the assessment is a set of prioritized recommendations and a clear roadmap to streamline implementation, ensuring a successful deployment of VCF 9. The guide also details deliverables such as a discovery report, gap and risk analysis summary, and remediation recommendations, all aimed at facilitating a smooth transition to VCF 9 with minimal disruption.