Specifying Host Destination Candidates

Complete Step 3 of the host consolidation project creation process as follows:

1. Optionally select one or more existing servers to consolidate the source servers to.

   • If you are consolidating from physical servers to Oracle Virtual Servers (P2V), click Add Existing Virtual Servers as Destinations to view a list of existing VM-based Exalogic Elastic Cloud systems and Oracle Virtual Machine destination servers to consolidate the source servers to. Use the target type filter to differentiate the two. Select the servers you want to add, then click Select.

     The destinations you select appear in the table. Note that you can subsequently cull the list by removing selected destination servers.

   • If you are consolidating from physical servers to physical servers (P2P), click Add Existing Oracle Engineered System as Destinations to search for the Exadata Database Machine servers or Exalogic Elastic Cloud servers to consolidate the source servers to. Use the target type filter to differentiate the two. Select the servers you want to add, then click Select.

     The destinations you select appear in the table. Note that you can subsequently cull the list by removing selected destination servers.

   Note:

   If you do not select existing destinations, the consolidation will be to new (phantom) destinations. For P2P projects, if you do not select existing destinations, the source servers you select are also considered destination servers. This enables you to select a subset of source servers to consolidate to.

2. Optionally edit estimated CPU capacity, I/O request, and network I/O volume by clicking in a row and changing the value. You can also edit the I/O value by clicking Specify Server I/O Capacity to estimate these I/O capacities for all destination servers involved in the consolidation project.
3. Click Next to set up data collection.