Run an inventory discovery

Inventory discovery lets you scan and list all the virtual machine (VM) instances in your infrastructure. By using inventory discovery, you can determine the characteristics of the VMs, such as operating system type, storage, number of cores, and other basic information. For VMs running on VMware, inventory discovery also lets you collect the performance data.

The following pages describe how to run an inventory discovery on the supported platforms:

• Run an inventory discovery on VMware.
• Run an inventory discovery on AWS.

Note: The mcdc CLI supports inventory discovery on VMware and AWS only. For VMs running on other platforms, such as Azure or machines running in your on-premises environment, you can run a guest discovery or an IP range scan.

Before you begin

1. Review the requirements for downloading and running the mcdc CLI.
2. Complete the steps to download mcdc CLI.

What's next

• Learn how to run an inventory discovery on VMware.
• Learn how to run an inventory discovery on AWS.