Guided Consolidation is a tool that will allow you to monitor a physical computer and determine it’s potential for adding to your virtual environment.
It has an easy to use interface with a more simplified approach than using the full VMware Capacity Planner utility.
Once the tool begins to scan the system, it will gather data and display CPU information and utilization, memory information and utilization as well as the computer name. Sometimes it may take up to 1hr before this process begins. Be prepared to allow 24 to 48hrs for this process to complete as Guided Consolidation builds a confidence metric level. Once a high enough confidence level is reached, the status of the system changes to "Ready for consolidation".
At this point, a consolidation plan is available by selecting the analyzed computer and clicking the "Plan Consolidation" button.
This plan will include a star rating which will indentify how likely the physical computer is for virtualization and will even make a recommendation for the target host. The rating system ranges from 1 to 5 stars, with 5 stars indicating the system is a high candidate for the proposed host. From the Consolidation Wizard, you can change several things, the name of the VM, the host being assigned too or even remove a VM altogether from the list.
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