Inventory discovery lets you scan and list VMWare virtual machine (VM) instances and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (Preview), and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases (Preview) in your VMware and AWS environments by using the Migration Center discovery client CLI. To discover VM instances and databases on other platforms, such as Azure or on-premises, use guest discovery or an IP range scan.
The mcdc
CLI gathers a range of data from both VMWare VM instances
and from Amazon EC2 instances (Preview). This
data includes details about the operating system, storage
configuration, the number of cores, and performance data.
For 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
For more information on how to run an inventory discovery on supported
platforms by using the mcdc
CLI, see the following:
Before you begin
- Review the requirements for downloading and running the
mcdc
CLI. - Complete the steps to download
mcdc
CLI.
What's next
- Learn how to discover VM instances on VMware.
- Learn how to discover EC2 instances and databases in AWS.