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Modifying Capacity

The VM Hosts tab displays the capacity information for all the available hosts and enables you to modify the capacity to be considered for analysis.

Adding VM Hosts

You can add extra VM Hosts to the selected Groups.

Click the down arrow button next to the Add VM Hosts button. A drop-down list shows the following options:

Existing Hosts
Custom Configuration
Clone

Cloning Capacity

SHO allows you to clone hosts listed in the Capacity table.

To clone the hosts:

  1. Select the host that you want to clone from the Capacity table. You can clone only one host at a time.
  2. Click Clone. The Create Clone window opens.
  3. In the Prefix field, enter the prefix to be added to the cloned hosts. Based on the prefix you define and the count you specify in the Number of Clones field, the new hosts will be named as <prefix>New0, <prefix>New1, <prefix>New2, and so on.
  4. In the Number of Clones field, enter the total number of clones that you want to create.
  5. Click Create Clone to add the cloned nodes to the Capacity table.
    Click Cancel to close the Create Clone window without saving the changes.

Removing Capacity

To remove hosts:

  1. Select the desired host from the table. To select multiple hosts, hold down the CTRL key and select the desired hosts.
  2. Click Remove VM Hosts.

Associating a VM Host to a Datastore

To associate a VM Host to a Datastore:

  1. From the Capacity table, click the VM Host that you want to be associated with a Datastore.
  2. Click Add Association. The Add Association window opens.
  3. From the Datastores list, select the Datastores that you want to be associated with the selected VM host. For selecting multiple VM hosts, hold down the CTRL key and select the desired hosts.
  4. Click OK.

After you make the necessary changes, perform any one of the following steps:


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