System Discovery Tool for Virtual Machines Overview
The System Discovery tool collects information about virtual machines for your hypervisor and creates a Virtual Machine Analytics Report. This report can be used for predictive analysis of backup size and capacity requirements.
The tool is a non-intrusive and highly secure external utility that does not make any changes to your hypervisor configurations. This tool can collect virtual machine information for the following hypervisors:
The tool collects information about virtual machines for a VMware vCenter:
Name of each VM
Host name
Data Center
Size of each VM (provisioned size, actual size, and guest size)
Guest OS
Whether the VM is protected
What applications are running on the VM
Disk information
Number of days VMs have been powered off
Performance metrics (CPU, network, and disk usage)
Number of CPU sockets in use on physical hypervisor servers
The collected information provides the following benefits:
VMware vCenter analysis to track usage, distribution, and analytics for virtual machines.
Identify disks attached to protected VMs, including the datastore, controller type, size, and disk type.
Identify virtual machines that can be powered off based on performance metrics.
Identify virtual machines for archiving and disk space that can be reclaimed after archiving.
This capability enables you to analyze VM usage, predict the results of using VM archiving, and estimate disk space savings that would be reclaimed by archiving.
The tool collects following information about virtual machines for a Microsoft Azure subscription. You can obtain the information for Azure virtual machines that use Azure Classic or the Azure Resource Manager deployment model.
Name of each VM
Location
Resource Groups
Storage Account
Provisioned size of each VM
Instance Type
Guest OS
How It Works
Log in to download the tool. The tool runs a discovery job that analyzes virtual machine data for the hypervisor and creates a Zip file that contains the results.
After the job is complete, the contents of the Zip file are analyzed and can be used to create the following reports:
Virtual Machine Infrastructure Report
Virtual Machine Analytics Report (VMware only).
The report also includes VM archiving prediction with projected storage space and cost saving.
You can generate the reports locally or upload the collected data to Cloud Services.
Note: If necessary, you can request a temporary account for Cloud Services from your Account Representative. The temporary account is active for 30 days from the date of creation.
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