Inventory discovery lets you scan and list VMware virtual machine (VM) instances, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (Preview), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases (Preview), and Azure VM instances (Preview) 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 (Preview), and Azure VM instances (Preview), the mcdc CLI collects data such as the operating system, storage configuration, the number of cores, and performance data.
For Amazon RDS databases (Preview), 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
- Review the requirements for downloading and running the
mcdcCLI. - Complete the steps to download
mcdcCLI.
What's next
- Learn how to discover VM instances on VMware.
- Learn how to discover EC2 instances and databases in AWS.
- Learn how to discover Azure VM instances.