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Consolidation Prerequisites
Before you use the Consolidation feature, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
• At least one datacenter inventory object exists.
• At least one host is registered with VirtualCenter. See Adding a Host.
• Consolidation services require local administrator privileges on the VirtualCenter server.
Specifically, the collector service must be run with local administrator privileges.
Additionally, the account used must also be granted the Logon as service privilege. If
Active Directory is deployed on your network, the credentials used to run consolidation
services must also have sufficient privileges to query the Active Directory database.
Supply VirtualCenter with your credentials before you begin a consolidation project. See
Specifying Consolidation Settings.
• Consolidation services also require administrator access to the systems selected for
analysis. Specifically, the collector service uses these credentials to connect to and
retrieve configuration and performance data from the physical systems under analysis.
See Supplying System-level Administrator Credentials.
Specifying Scope
The Add to Analysis dialog box lets you discover systems on your network and select systems
to analyze. You can specify the systems you want to analyze by computer name, IP address
or range of addresses, or file name. You can also search for all systems within a domain,
then select the ones you want to analyze. If there are many systems in the domain and you
are having trouble finding the ones you want, you can filter the list by computer name, IP
address, domain, or by systems under analysis.
To manually specify systems to consolidate
1. Select Manually specify the computers to consolidate.
2. Do one of the following:
• Enter computer names or IP addresses. Separate multiple entries with commas.
• Enter an IP range. Multiple ranges are not permitted.
• Enter the fully-qualified path to a text file that contains a list of computer names or IP
addresses. Each computer name or IP address must be on a separate line in the file.
The file must be accessible to the VI Client.
To search for systems by domain
Working with Consolidation : Viewing Analysis Results : About the Confidence Metric
Consolidating Candidates
After you analyze your datacenter, you are ready to convert candidates to virtual machines.
In this phase, you select the systems to convert. VirtualCenter selects appropriate
destinations and configuration parameters for each resultant virtual machine. If more than
one virtual machine host is available, you can select the host you want.
Note: VMware recommends that you virtualize one candidate at a time. Consolidating
multiple candidates simultaneously might cause all virtualization operations to fail if the host
does not contain an adequate amount of storage space.
To convert systems using VirtualCenter recommendations
1. On the Analysis tab, select the systems to consolidate and click Plan Consolidation.
2. Select a system.
3. (Optional) Change the name displayed in the Physical Computer column by double-
clicking it and entering a new name.
Your entry is used as the name for the resultant virtual machine.
4. (Optional) Change destinations, if alternative destinations are available, by clicking in the
Destinations column and selecting from the drop-down menu.
The number of stars displayed in the Destination Rating column indicate the degree to
which the host system can comfortably accommodate the estimated resource needs of
the resultant virtual machine.
5. Click Consolidate.
A conversion task is instantiated. You can view task progress in the Recent Tasks pane.
You view additional information about the task on the Tasks tab. See Viewing
Consolidation Tasks.
To convert systems manually
1. In the Analysis tab, right-click on a system and select Convert to Virtual Machine >
Manually. The menu option is available only if the VMware Converter Enterprise Client is
installed and enabled on your VI Client. You can verify whether VMware Converter
Enterprise Client is installed and enabled through the Plugin Manager (Plugins > Plugin
Manager > Installed tab).
The Import Wizard is displayed.
2. Complete the wizard to manually specify virtual machine properties.
Troubleshooting Consolidation
Guided Consolidation tasks are resource intensive. If you notice a negative impact on
VirtualCenter, consider the following:
• Guided Consolidation caches information about discovered systems, and a very large
cache can negatively impact VirtualCenter performance. Do not run Guided Consolidation
over more than 20,000 systems.
• Up to 100 systems can be simultaneously analyzed. If you select more than 100
systems, systems will be added, in the order they appear, until the maximum number of
systems is reached.
Use the following options to remedy performance issues:
• Disable consolidation and continue to run the collector service. This method prevents
consolidation tasks from starting, but does not stop the collector service from gathering
data.
• Disable consolidation, and stop and disable the collector service. This method prevents
consolidation tasks from starting, and stops the collector service from gathering data.
The collected data is not destroyed and can be used if the service is started again.
• Uninstall the collector service. This method removes Guided Consolidation, and the data
it has collected will no longer be usable.
Disable Consolidation
To disable consolidation
1. Select Administration > VirtualCenter Management Server Configuration.
2. Select Advanced Settings.
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter the following in the Key field:
dontStartConsolidation
5. Enter the following in the Value field:
true
6. Restart the VirtualCenter Server.
The collector service is still active and will continue to periodically probe systems that are
being analyzed.