Host Consolidation Planner

Host Consolidation Planner enables you to match managed sources you want to consolidate with new or existing destinations. Host Consolidation Planner supports the following combinations:

• Consolidate source servers to generic physical machines, Oracle engineered systems (Exadata Database Machines or Exalogic Elastic Cloud systems), or Oracle Virtual Machine (VM) servers.

• Consolidate source servers to physical machines configured in the Oracle Cloud. In a consolidation of this type, an Oracle Compute Cloud configuration mimics a host, except that only memory and CPU capacity are of consequence as resources to be considered.

Host Consolidation Planner leverages data collected from managed targets by Cloud Control and factors in business and technical requirements to help you determine the optimum scenarios.

Before you begin with Host Consolidation planning, and additional Consolidation information see: Database and Host Consolidations in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Database Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide.

The following sections describe Host Consolidation Planner:

• Overview of Host Consolidation Planner

• Creating a Host Consolidation Planner Project

• Creating a Host Consolidation Planner Scenario

• Other Host Consolidation Scenario Creation Options

• Evaluating Host Consolidation Scenarios