Step 2: Discover Alibaba Cloud ECSs

Prerequisites

• You have completed all preparations.
• You have installed Edge in the source environment and connected it to MgC.

Procedure

1. Sign in to the MgC console.
2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Research > Application Discovery. In the upper left corner of the page, select the migration project created in Making Preparations.
3. If this is your first time to create a discovery task, click Discover Over Internet in the Cloud Discovery area.

   

   If this is not your first time to create a discovery task, choose Discover > Over Internet in the Discovery Task card.

   

4. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.

   Table 1 Parameters for creating an Internet-based discovery task

   Region	Parameter	Description	Mandatory
   Basic Settings	Task Name	Enter a task name.	Yes
   	Task Description	Describe the task.	No
   Task Settings	Source Platform	Select Alibaba Cloud.	Yes
   	Credential	Select the credential for accessing Alibaba Cloud. If the credential has not been added, choose Create to add it. For details, see Managing Credentials. NOTICE: Select AK/SK for Authentication and enter the AK/SK pair of your Alibaba Cloud account. Your account must have the AliyunECSReadOnlyAccess permissions.	Yes
   	Region	Select the region where the source servers are located. You can select multiple regions.	Yes
   Resource Discovery	Cloud Platform Collection	Enable cloud platform collection, select Servers from the Resource Type drop-down list.	Yes
   	Application Association (Optional)	An application is a group of resources that need to be migrated together. You can add resources to or remove resource from an application as needed. You can use the application to get recommendations for target resources and create a workflow to migrate the source resources. If an application is available, select the application from the Application drop-down list. If no application is available, click Create Application. In the displayed dialog box, enter an application name and description, select a business scenario, environment, and region (where you are migrating to), and click OK.	No

5. Click Confirm. After the task is created, the system automatically starts collecting information about your Alibaba Cloud ECSs.
   • On the Application Discovery page, click View next to Total tasks to go to the task list. You can view the task status and task details. If the task status is Failed, click View in the Operation column to view the data source that failed to be collected. You can move the cursor to the collection status of the data source to view the failure cause.
   • On the Application Discovery page, click the Resources tab. Then click the number in the Server row. On the Servers tab page, you can view the discovered source servers and their details.