Hi,

We are looking at upgrading our Current Ciscoworks platform. It is

currently operating on a windows 2000 platform. The current configuration is as follows:

Product Name Version With Patch Level Installed Date

1. CiscoWorks Common Services 3.0.6 23 Oct 2008, 16:03:33 PDT

2. Campus Manager 4.0.10 24 Oct 2008, 08:17:52 PDT

3. CiscoView 6.1.5 07 Aug 2007, 09:50:01 PDT

4. Device Fault Manager 2.0.10 24 Oct 2008, 09:16:15 PDT

5. Internetwork Performance Monitor 2.6.0 24 Jan 2006, 17:49:10 PST

6. Integration Utility 1.6.0 24 Jan 2006, 09:46:50 PST

7. Resource Manager Essentials 4.0.6 23 Oct 2008, 16:48:00 PDT

We would like to go to a 2008 server the discussion is to a virtual server on our network.

What are the pros and cons for this senerio and what is the best choice.

Currently we are tracking 200 + cisco devices.

Please suggest.