Here and welcome back now into this video we will be discussing about the application discovery service.
Now, the application Discovery Service, as the name suggests, helps enterprise customers to plan
their migration projects by gathering information about their compromised data centers.
Now, typically, if you speak about enterprises, they might have hundreds to thousands of servers
within their data center.
And in the due process of migration, understanding the types of servers, understanding their network
dependencies is one of the major tasks.
And it takes a lot of time during those phases.
So application discovery service really helps there.
So one of the great feature about this product is its network dependency.
So whenever you are running application discovery service, you see it basically gives you the network
dependency charge, something similar to what you see in the diagram.
So if the application server is connecting to Beebe's, connecting to see, so the entire chart is automatically
prepared by the application discovery service.
So when you plan the migration, you know that if you migrate just one server, then what are the other
dependencies as well, which you need to migrate to establish cloud?
So this is one good feature and the next good feature, which I like about application discovery service
is its addition about right instance type so that the agent base installation, typically it can look
into the amount of CPU, the amount of memory that the on premise server is consuming, and based on
that it can automatically recommend you which instant typing easy do with that server.
So basically for Application Discovery Service, it supports both Agent Less Discovery and agent based
discovery.
Now the agent list service needs installation of discovery connected in VMware recentre.
This is important.
So basically, if you want to have this nice network dependency graph, then you have to go ahead and
install the Discovery Connector, which is supported in VMware Center.
If you go with the agent based installation, you will not really get this nice little Gruffudd, but
you will certainly get information related to what the right is doing to the states and few more when
you migrate to it.
So let me quickly show you and what have you and how exactly this might look like.
So I'm going to be easy to control.
Let's go to the Application Discovery Service.
And within a year, it basically gives you the overview about the agents which are currently associated.
So, yeah, it basically says that there are two agents among which one is healthy and one is in the
shutdown state.
So you can go ahead and click on View to Agent Orange.
So these are the two agents here.
Among which you will see that the SEC in Egypt is currently running.
So now when you go to servers, it will basically give you the agent and let's click here and you see
it basically gives more detail about that specific agent.
So currently I have one server in digital digitalization where I had installed the agent there.
So it does not really have a VMware virtualization.
So these fields would be empty.
However, on the right, it basically gives you the C.P.U type, the operating system, which is the
same Doyce.
Then it tells about the memory, which is the free disk says you have the total amount of memory, which
is to give the total amount of this year.
And also it gives you various performance related metrics associated with that server.
So now if you go on the left hand side, there is a tab, for instance, the recommendation let's go
ahead here and we can export a result based on CSFI.
So let's say that there are 102 instances within your on premise and you want to migrate them to a W.S.
So you want to see which is the right instance date for all of those hundred on my servers based on
their current CPU and memory utilization.
So this specific feature really helps you where you can select the CPU, AMCC, ideally it should be
on average utilization or you can even have a maximum utilization.
But let me just select average.
Then again, you can select the tendency, the pricing model, and if you would like, you can even
exclude the certain easy to instant's type, like most stable instances, if specificly these instances
are critical and would be running in production.
So once you've selected this, you can go ahead and click on export recommendation.
So it says now that the recommendation files should be downloaded automatically.
And this is a compressed file which got downloaded.
So let's click here.
And this is basically a case we find.
So I'll just double click here.
All right, so now, since only one agent was installed and the data was collected accordingly.
Now, if you look into the recommendations section here, so this is the recommendation, easy to instanced
model and the recommended one is E3 that is small.
So this automatically recommends the right instance time.
And it really helps the migration engineers who might want to select the right instance based on the
application utilization in itemizers.
So that's the high level overview about the application discovery service.
I hope this video has been informative for you and I look forward to see you in the next video.