Run an inventory discovery

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

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

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