The Migration Center discovery client CLI or (mcdc
CLI) is an offline
tool that lets you run different types of asset discoveries on your
infrastructure. These asset discoveries scan the physical servers, virtual
machine (VM) instances, and databases
(Preview) in your infrastructure to collect
all the required information for a successful migration assessment to
Google Cloud. Migration Center provides advanced migration
recommendations and planning capabilities, however, if you're working with
sensitive data and don't want to upload it to Google Cloud, you can
choose to run an offline assessment instead.
The mcdc
CLI has the following advantages:
- It doesn't require installation.
- It runs on Linux and Windows host machines.
- It creates offline assessment reports.
You can use the data collected by running a mcdc
CLI
discovery to do the following:
- Run an offline assessment.
- Export this data to Migration Center where
you can do the following:
- Review insights that Migration Center generates.
- Create groups of assets.
- Run an online assessment to create (total cost of ownership) TCO report for your infrastructure.
Available collection methods
Using the mcdc
CLI, you can run the following collection
methods:
- Inventory discovery scans and lists all of the VMware VM instances, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (Preview), and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (Preview) that are running on VMware and AWS (Preview) platforms.
- Guest discovery scans VM instances and physical servers, collecting data about the running applications. This data includes information about machine configurations, hardware, network, open files, services, and processes. Guest discovery also scans and lists Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases that are running on-premises and on AWS (Preview).
- IP range scan detects all assets in your network, verifies credentials, and scans the detected assets. It collects data using guest discovery. Use IP range scan when you have several machines in an IP address range or when you are unfamiliar with the infrastructure that you want to scan.
Limitations
- The
mcdc
CLI can export data of only up to 10,000 machines to Migration Center.
What's next
- Review the
requirements for downloading and running
mcdc
CLI. Learn more about the following discovery methods: