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Offline assessment overview
The Migration Center discovery client CLI or mcdc CLI
lets you run an offline assessment with the information that you collected
in the discovery phase. The offline assessment creates reports that provide
you with a high-level fit assessment result for migration and potential
blockers for different migration journeys. The offline assessment also
describes any issues that must be resolved before the migration.
It provides an overall fit assessment using one of the following scores:
Excellent fit
Good fit, with some findings that might require attention
Needs minimal work before migrating
Needs moderate work before migrating
Needs major work before migrating
No fit
Insufficient data
The offline assessment also gives you:
The ability to get the assessment information about physical servers and
virtual machine (VM) instances in your infrastructure.
A detailed report on the applicable assessment rules, including any technical
blockers to modernization.
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