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Modifying Workloads

Workloads are the physical hosts or VMs present in the selected Groups. This tab contains the Workload table, which lists all the workloads present in the Groups selected for optimization analysis.

Adding Workloads

You can add extra workloads to the existing workloads on the selected Groups.

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

Existing Workloads
Custom Configuration
Clone

Cloning Workloads

SHO allows you to clone workloads listed in the Workloads table.

To clone existing workloads:

  1. Select the workload that you want to clone from the Workload table. You can clone only one workload 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 workloads. Based on the prefix you define and the count you specify in the Number of Clones field, the new workloads 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 be created.
  5. Click Create Clone to add the cloned nodes to the Workloads table.
    Click Cancel to close the Create Clone window without saving the changes.

Removing Workloads

To remove workloads:

  1. Click the desired workload from the table. For selecting multiple workloads, hold down the CTRL key and click the desired workloads.
  2. Click Remove Workload.

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


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