Uso de VMware Guided Consolidation

In this document we will see one of the VMware products that will help us virtualize our physical environment. VMware currently has two tools to measure what resources it will need when virtualizing a physical environment. The partner tool VMware Capacity Planner and this free and much more basic tool called VMware Guided Consolidation. It is a tool that has three processes: 1.- Search: Search for physical computers on the network to be analyzed. 2.- Analyzes: The selected physical equipment is analyzed and performance data is obtained for each computer. 3.- Consolidate servers: The data obtained is compared with the resources available in the virtual environment and virtualized in the virtual environment with recommendations on ESX hosts.

Virtualize Physical Computers with VMware P2V – VMware Physical to Virtual Assistant

With this VMware product we will be able to virtualize servers/hosts to VMware virtual machines. We have two ways to do it, one by installing it on a server to virtualize itself; or boot the server we are interested in with a bootable CD called VMware P2V BootCD and connect to it from another computer with this software installed to do a remote virtualization.