What is a virtualization study?
A study created using Virtual Planner consists of the following:
- A list of candidate computers (stand-alone servers or guests) selected to participate in the study.
- The Study Profile which specifies the virtualization platform to be utilized, the hardware for new hosts onto which the computers may be consolidated, and parameters such as thresholds and CPU overhead.
- A list of targets (virtual hosts or, if supported by the virtualization platform, resource pools or clusters) on which to assign the candidates.
- Results showing projected virtual placements, resource usage and hardware requirements due to the virtualization actions taken in the study.
The Virtual Planner automatically discovers data representative of your computing environment available in the Workspace. After applying filters for the type of virtualization you are planning, you can view the systems that are candidates for virtualization. The Virtual Planner suggests which stand-alone computers and existing guests should be assigned to each target virtual host. It takes affinity relationships between systems into consideration to indicate which computers or guests should be placed on the same host and which should be placed on different hosts.
The sections that follow describe how to create several types of Virtualization studies. Creating a new study will help you optimize server performance and throughput, with the goal of getting data processing closer to the limits of the server capacity in your data center.
Virtual Planner Study types
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