Creating a Host Consolidation Planner Project

You create a host consolidation project for each consolidation effort, then add individual consolidation scenarios within it. You can then compare consolidation scenarios to determine which consolidation strategy makes the most sense.

After the project is defined, a Cloud Control job is submitted to collect available data for the specified targets from the Management Repository. Once the job finishes, the project becomes an active project. As long as the project is in an active state, data collection will continue.

Creating a project involves the following steps: