I have a customer with a reasonable VMware estate spread over 4 blade chassis which contain numerous legacy blades (Nehalem chipsets and prior).
They have around 210 VM's.
They are building a new greenfield datacentre to migrate the workload into, of which I will be spec'ing the hardware required.
They run vROPS on the environment at the moment (apologies I don't know the specific version yet).
What would be decent reports to run in order to assist with the consolidation calculations? (details on where and how to configure the right reports if they are custom would be useful)
I am not looking to right size any VM's at this point, just migrate across, so I am looking at increasing the density and increasing the current consolidation ratio with regards to CPU (which is about 4:1 at the moment). Not looking to overcommit memory.
Any other useful graphs that assist with the justification process of consolidating onto a handful of blades would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!