22.1 About Source Workload Discovery

PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface and PlateSpin Migrate Client provide automated discovery and inventory of supported source workloads. See Table 9-1 for an overview of the workload discovery capabilities of each tool.

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Table 22-1 SUPPORTED SOURCE WORKLOAD DISCOVERY CAPABILITIES

Source Workload Discovery

Migrate Client

Web Interface

Windows standalone workloads

Windows cluster workloads (to target VMware host)

Linux standalone workloads

Linux cluster workloads

Multiple machines at a time

All machines in a domain

Discovery Capabilities

Refresh Source Discovery

The Mass Discover CLI enables you to discover workloads from a CSV file. The related migration jobs start according to the schedules you set for them. See massdiscover in Using the PlateSpin Migrate Client Command Line Interface.

As an alternative to Migrate discovery, you can use Migrate Agent to register a workload with the Migrate Server and inventory its details. See Section G.0, Migrate Agent Utility.

You can view discovered source workloads in the Workloads list in either tool: