Specifications for VMware server

do you mean you want to run a report ?

have you looked at the data that RV Tools can provide ?

https://www.robware.net/rvtools/

No. I want to create a spreadsheet that list the physical and VM specs but not sure I have all the data related to specifications.

RVtools creates the spreadsheet automatically from vCenter Server - nothing for you to do ?

I'm not following what you want here ?

what specifications do you need, have you at least tried RV Tools, to check if it reports what you require ?

What specifications do you seek, a new host server ?

Ah well, in that case you need to understand the current Performance requirements on all your VMs.

At first glance, you will need total number of

Number of vCPUs
Amount of Memory
Amount of Storage

and individual requirements or VMs

All those are easy, and can be obtained using RV Tools.

What is more difficult is performance, and for that you will need to look at performance data.

Is not really a spreadsheet, but initial examinations, a spreadsheet is a good guide, e.g. you may find some VMs are not Cloud Ready.

IS that all? just total compute and storage specs for the physical and each VM?

I dont know if they can install and use RV tools or not. I would think performance should be similar when you allocate similar specs on cloud. I assume you mean data like "CPU utilization", READ/WRITE transactions. etc,

well for VM dont you have

Operating System name and release (Guest OS)

32/64 bit machine

OS Endianess

VM Name

Local or SAN Storage?

For physical:

Processor Type( x-86, Sun, etc)

Number of Socets.

Number of Hosts

Number of Clusters

Number of Cores

Bandwidth

What data do you normally collect for Networking and performance requirements?

You don’t need to collect any stats for your hosts although depends what Cloud Solution you pick!

Just VMs all info can be exported from vCenter Server

Utilisation is what you need to capture

But If you are speaking to VMware they have tools available they’ll use if you work with a Partner to complete this and you have to do nothing!

We dont the solution yet. It could be EC2 or RDs too.

I dont understand why you dont need to know the information for host or on-premise machines.

Does this apply for VMC cloud? You still need to know what you have on premise i think.

You don't purchase hosts for AWS or Azure, it's Cloud.

VMC you purchase hosts! VMC is minimum of two hosts which are

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vmc-aws-operations/GUID-98FD3BA9-8A1B-4500-99FB-C40DF6B3DA95.html

I think you'll find two of them could be all the hosts you need, but not sure of your current enviornment!

Is HOSTS = PHYSICAL MACHINE?

You specify the CPU, storage, memory for EC2 and RDS for AWS. 

So I need to know what specs we have on-premise. Right?

if you want to migrate CPU, Memory and Storage will be the same ? (maybe!)

So you just need somewhere to run those VMs, on prem or Cloud just need resources using similar resources.

You need to work with a Partner (AWS, VMware etc)to do the SIZE analysis.

Do you know at present if the sizing is correct for current VMs ? otherwise you could be overpaying for resources you don't need, or under paying, e.g. you need more resources.

e.g. are the number of Cores and Memory per VM allocated correctly ?

The same with storage, have you over provisioned or under provision storage, this is a big project, which is a little more than a spreadsheet.

and then the question WHY ?

Why do I need a partner for sizing? It is basic stuff.

Do you have any articles or links that show how they did sizing and migration?

I dont know if sizing for current Vms is correct or not. Will have to check with VMware team I assume on this.

It’s a Partner engagement exercise they have the software and Consultancy

when you mention HOSTS, are these Physical machine or VMware hosts?

for network requirements, is it just bandwidth, firewall rules, routing tables etc?

Hosts are normally physical but in Cloud land they are just a bunch of virtual resources made to look like physical instants

A  "dedicated EC2 Host"  on the cloud should be identical to the on-premise physical. You will have your own physical in AWS.

For networking, what are you mostly interested in to know for migration?

Bandwidth used

Any special networking

do you configure "network bandwidth" when you create an EC2 or RDS or that is part of the machine family type you select? 

is there an example of special networking requirement?

Load Balancing

You seem to keep glossing over the usage aspect that Andrew keeps asking about.

You really shouldn't plan a move to the cloud based on allocated resources on-prem.

What if you currently have a VM that has 50 CPUS and 128G of RAM and 50TB of disk allocated to it.  It only runs a small 100M database and has 5 users that use that database once a month.   If you've never looked at overall usage, you have way over-allocated that machine.

So, when you move the to cloud, will you suggest the exact same server class that you have on-prem?

Not at all what I'm suggesting.  You just seemed to want a report on what you have currently to map to cloud compute and didn't see anything of current allocation versus current usage.

It seems you are on top of that and I'm not a VMWare guy, Andrew is the one I would go to so I'll leave you in his very capable hands.