Creating a study to consolidate systems onto virtual hosts
This section discusses consolidating physical systems onto virtual hosts or relocating already existing guests or partitions to new hosts, which is called a Consolidation Study. Review the following questions before using the Virtual Planner to conduct the study:
- How big a consolidation? Will you focus on the servers assigned to a particular group, or include all available servers from any active data source?
- Will you focus on all servers in a domain or particular systems identified through an entity filter?
- Will you be including existing guests in this Consolidation Study?
The following topics describe how to conduct a study for projecting the benefits of consolidating systems onto virtual hosts:
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