So I've been letting Operations Manager run for several months and now I'd like to remediate the Oversized VMs. I see several VMs with 8GB or 16GB of memory, but vCOPS is recommending 1GB of memory. Now, I could easily change the RAM via the VM settings, but this would lead to a heated discussion with the administrator of that application server. Most of these VM settings were used because of "vendor requirements", but obviously vCOPS is reporting them as Oversized VMs.
One approach I thought of that would appear to meet "vendor requirements" is applying limits to each of these VMs. This way, the operating system will still report 8GB or 16GB of memory, but in reality, I'm only allowing 1GB of usable memory. My question is - if I apply limits, does vCOPS take those limits into consideration or does it only look at the VM settings? My concern is that I start applying all these limits, but vCOPS is still reporting them as Oversized VMs.
Thanks in advance,
Tanya