How IT companies make benefit from the MAP toolkit?

You know that big IT organisations are likely to have a large number of SQL Server installations that are not fully known to the internal IT department. If these unsupervised SQL databases carry business-critical information without backup or control, it can affect the functioning of your business. This is the main reason that IT companies are preferring the MAP toolkit which is designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process. The MAP Toolkit SQL Server provides you a fast, scalable, and agentless inventory with low overhead.

The benefit of MAP Toolkit is that it can help you create an inventory of all the SQL server installations in the network. This will also help you in considering the value of consolidating and certain databases and bringing them under IT supervision.

How to run Microsoft MAP Tool SQL:

• Open MAP tool.
• Create an inventory database that will be used to save inventory data and collected statistics when working with the MAP tool.
• The MAP console provides you the option to select your inventory scenario. Moreover, the MAP tool can be used to target different scenarios, including SQL database consolidation.

After this, the MAP tool will launch the home screen page, for most scenarios you need to run the first two steps as preparation steps before performing any assessment. The 2 steps are: perform an inventory and collect performance data.

Follow these steps for guidance: 1. click on perform an inventory à Go.  2. Determine the discovery method.

Select an account that has administrative permission on the targeted servers, you can add more than one account, and the MAP tool will try to login to servers using all the accounts.

• Collect performance data à Go.

Select all the SQL servers.

For SQL MAP, you have to wait until the collecting counters are completely finished.

Now, the collect performance data step is completed.

• To continue with SQL consolidation, click expand the database, run the uncompleted scenarios to have a complete SQL consolidation assessment.
• If want to strengthen the current environment having hardware appliances, make sure to run Microsoft database consolidation, appliance wizard:

Click the Go button.

Currently, you have two options, version 1.2 is Intel processor-based whereas v1.2 is AMD processor-based. Here, v1.2 is selected.

• At last, select the servers you wish to consolidate, in this case, all SQL servers will be selected.

You can take assistance from the Octopus Cloud in implementing the various Microsoft tools. From SPLA licensing optimisation, cloud migration to inventory scanning, you will be helped according to your requirements.