An administrator is using Guided Consolidation and has added a system for Analysis. After 30
minutes, the status has not changed from Collecting System Information to Analyzing. Which of
the following statements indicates why this might occur?

A.
Guided Consolidation can take up to 8 hours to collect system information before the status
changes to Analyzing

B.
Guided Consolidation can take up to 24 hours to collect system information before the status
changes to Analyzing

C.
The status change should be immediate and the Guided Consolidation Service status should
be checked on the vCenter Server

D.
Guided Consolidation can take up to 1 hour to collect system information before the status
changes to Analyzing

Explanation:
vSphere Basic System Administration vCenter Server 4.0 ESX 4.0 ESXi 4.0, page 94.

NOTE After adding a system for analysis, it can take up to one hour before the status of the newly added system changes from Collecting System Information to Analyzing.