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:
VMware
The tool collects information about virtual machines for a VMware vCenter:
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Name of each VM
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Host name
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Data Center
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Size of each VM (provisioned size, actual size, and guest size)
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Guest OS
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Whether the VM is protected
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What applications are running on the VM
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Disk information
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Number of days VMs have been powered off
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Performance metrics (CPU, network, and disk usage)
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Number of CPU sockets in use on physical hypervisor servers
The collected information provides the following benefits:
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VMware vCenter analysis to track usage, distribution, and analytics for virtual machines.
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Identify disks attached to protected VMs, including the datastore, controller type, size, and disk type.
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Identify virtual machines that can be powered off based on performance metrics.
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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.
Microsoft Hyper-V
The tool collects following information about virtual machines for a Microsoft Hyper-V host and cluster:
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Name of each VM
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Size of each VM (provisioned size, actual size, and guest size)
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Guest OS
Note
To view the Guest OS information, the VM must be powered on.
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Number of CPU sockets in use on physical hypervisor servers
Amazon EC2
The tool collects following information about virtual machines for Amazon EC2:
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Instance Name
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Instance Type
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Availability Zone
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Region
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Provisioned Size
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Guest OS
Microsoft Azure
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.
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Name of each VM
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Location
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Resource Groups
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Storage Account
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Provisioned size of each VM
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Instance Type
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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:
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Virtual Machine Infrastructure Report
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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.