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VMware Guided Consolidation

Hello,

Unfortunatly I have the task to make a decission on if we should virtualize our SQL cluster or not.
So someone recommened to me to run the VMware Guided Consolidation which is part of the VirtualCenter 3.5 - we have not upgraded to 4.0 yet. However I just started the process and in the moment it shows four dots in the 'Confidence' column. Is that a good value or not so much? What is the max?

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Thank you very much for the input on this. I checked status of guided consolidation again this morning and it now says "Low" in the confidence column. Well since the results are based on the VM hosts then I am not suprised since they are already at the limit of their resources. So if we would move the SQL cluster onto VMware then no matter what we would need to upgrade to 4.0 - which was the plan anyways - and buy bigger VM hosts as well. We would also skip Windows clustering and use HA. I just have a hard time coming up with a decission if we should move away from a standalone solution to a virtualized one since the opinions about this topic are really 50\50. But that is a diffrent topic.