1. Cloud Control Host Lifecycle Management Guide
  2. Monitoring and Managing Hosts
  3. Host Consolidation Planner
  4. Creating a Host Consolidation Planner Scenario
  5. Defining Constraints for Host Consolidation

Defining Constraints for Host Consolidation

Specify business, corporate, or technical constraints that must be enforced. Constraints can guide the allocation process during automatic source-to-destination mapping. For manual mappings between sources and destinations, constraints can calculate violations.

Complete Step 2 of a host consolidation scenario as follows:

  1. Select compatible server criteria.

    Servers are considered compatible if they have the same specified target properties and configurations. If you are consolidating multiple source servers to a single destination server, only compatible servers can be consolidated together on the same destination server.

  2. Specify mutually exclusive server criteria.

    Certain types of source servers are mutually exclusive and should not be consolidated together on the same destination server due to various reasons. For example, nodes of an Oracle cluster should not be placed in the same failure group.

  3. Click Preview Effect of Constraints to view a list of source servers that are not compatible based on the defined constraints.
  4. Click Next to specify destination server candidates.