Run an inventory discovery

Inventory discovery lets you scan and list VMware virtual machine (VM) instances, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, and Azure VM instances by using the Migration Center discovery client CLI. To discover VM instances and databases in your on-premises environment, use guest discovery or an IP range scan.

For VMware VM instances, Amazon EC2 instances, and Azure VM instances, the mcdc CLI collects data such as the operating system, storage configuration, the number of cores, and performance data.

For Amazon RDS databases, the mcdc CLI captures information such as the database engine, name, edition, version, and shape, along with the following performance data:

  • CPU utilization
  • Memory utilization
  • Disk read and write input/output operations per second (IOPS)
  • Network ingress and egress

Before you begin

  1. Review the requirements for downloading and running the mcdc CLI.
  2. Complete the steps to download mcdc CLI.

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