It seems that when you create a Scenario within PlateSpin PowerRecon and some of the workload counters are missing for certain servers that these servers are left out of the calculations. So if you have 100 servers of which 10 have missing counters the calculations will be done based on 90 servers. As you can imagine it might be useful to include all servers in to the scenario calculations. By default this isn’t possible. But you can modify a config file to achieve this:
For PowerRecon 3.1:
- Edit the PowerRecon.config for 3.1 with Notepad or a similar editor
Location should be: \Program Files\PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.1 Server\configs\ - Locate and edit the entry as shown below:
<add key=”consolidationUseAllResources” value=”1″></add> - Change the above so that the value will be equal to “0” instead of “1” (which * excludes * incomplete workload profiles):
<add key=”consolidationUseAllResources” value=”0″></add> - Save the file
- Restart the PowerRecon Service 3.1
- Load the PowerRecon Client
- Re-Create the Consolidation Project
You will now see an increased number of servers available in your consolidation project. Thanks Patrick for this very useful information!