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.
IMPORTANT:
Before you discover a source workload, you must ensure that the source workload has an active partition. If you discover a source workload that does not have an active partition, the discovery fails. See The workload cannot be migrated because it has 0 active partitions. Ensure that the workload has exactly 1 active partition and try again.
Discovery of source Windows workloads in AWS requires PowerShell 2.0 or higher on the source workload.
Table 18-1 SUPPORTED SOURCE WORKLOAD DISCOVERY CAPABILITIES
|
Source Workload Discovery Capabilities |
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 |
✓ |
✗ |
|
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 F.0, Migrate Agent Utility.
You can view discovered source workloads in the Workloads list in either tool:
Web Interface: The Workloads list includes:
All source workloads discovered using the Web Interface
Source workloads in the default network discovered using Migrate Client
NOTE:Use the Web Interface to discover source workloads in non-default networks if you plan to migrate them using the Web Interface.
All source workloads registered using the Migrate Agent utility
All workloads displayed in the Web Interface Workloads list are supported for migration using the Web Interface. See Table 18-1 and Migration Operations Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface.
Migrate Client: The Workloads list includes all discovered source workloads, no matter where you initiated discovery.
Some workloads in the Migrate Client Workloads list might not be supported for some migration targets using the Migrate Client. See Table 18-1 and Migration Operations Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface.