AWS Transform for VMware helps you discover source servers using multiple data collection methods. It plans your migration to AWS using the configuration data collected about your source servers and databases, applying machine learning (ML) techniques, such as Graph Neural Networks, to plan your migration waves. It supports several ways of performing discovery and collecting data about your source servers.
Using AWS Application Discovery Service, AWS Transform can conduct agentless discovery by deploying the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (OVA file) through your VMware vCenter. The Agentless Collector can discover VM configuration and utilization, database metadata and utilization, and network connections. It can also conduct agent-based discovery by deploying the Application Discovery Agent on each of your VMs and physical servers. The agent installer is available for Windows and Linux operating systems. It collects configuration data, utilization data, inbound and outbound network connections, and processes that are running.
It can also conduct agent-based discovery by deploying the Application Discovery Agent on each of your VMs and physical servers. The agent installer is available for Windows and Linux operating systems. It collects configuration data, utilization data, inbound and outbound network connections, and processes that are running.
In addition, you can also use RVTools exports to provide CSV or Excel format exports that contain detailed information about your VMware environment including vSwitches, port groups, and VLANs. You can also export discovery data from select third-party tools to be used in AWS Transform for migration planning.
To get started, designate an AWS account as your discovery account and connect it to the VMware modernization capabilities of AWS Transform. You can download, view, and analyze all collected data directly within the AWS Transform console.