Discovery refers to the process of adding unmanaged workloads and platforms in your network and retrieving information about them. For any workload migration, you must have a discovered source and a discovered target platform. For semi-automated migrations, the target is a virtual machine or a physical machine. A target discovery operation populates the PlateSpin Migrate database with detailed inventory information about the target host and its resources. The inventory provides the data necessary to determine the host’s use and to properly configure one or more migrations to the target host.