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Discovering Servers over the Internet

This section describes how to discover servers running on clouds, such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, Tencent Cloud, Google Cloud, and Azure.

A simple migration project is used as an example. To learn the discovery process in a complex project, see Discovering Resources over the Internet.

After the servers are discovered over the Internet, you need to ensure all the servers pass the pre-migration check or perform a deeper discovery for them, so that you can create a migration workflow to migrate them.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Log in to the MgC console.
  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Research > Application Discovery. Select a migration project in the upper left corner of the page.
  3. If you are a first-time user of MgC, click Discover Over Internet in the Cloud Discovery area.

    If you are not a first-time user of MgC, choose Discover > Over Internet in the Discovery Task card.

  4. Configure migration details based on Table 1.

    Table 1 Parameters for creating an Internet-based discovery task

    Area

    Parameter

    Description

    Mandatory

    Task Basics

    Task Name

    Enter a task name.

    Yes

    Task Description

    Describe the task.

    No

    Task Settings

    Source Platform

    Select the source cloud platform. Currently, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, Tencent Cloud, Google Cloud, and Azure are supported.

    Yes

    Credential

    Select the credential for accessing the source cloud platform. If no credential is available, choose Create to create a credential by referring to Managing Credentials.

    • If the source cloud platform is Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, or Tencent Cloud, select AK/SK for Authentication and enter the AK/SK pair of your source cloud account.
    • If the source cloud platform is Google Cloud, select Configuration File for Authentication and upload the configuration file that contains your Google Cloud service account credentials. The file must be in JSON format and cannot exceed 4 KB.
    • If your source cloud platform is Azure, Select ID/Secret for Authentication. To learn how to obtain Azure credentials, see How Do I Obtain Azure Credentials?

    Yes

    Region

    Select the regions where your source services are running.

    Yes

  5. Select Servers from the Resource Type drop-down list.
  6. (Optional) Group the servers to be discovered as an application.

    • If an application is available, select the application from the Application drop-down list.
    • If no applications are available, click Create Application. In the displayed dialog box, enter an application name and description, select the business scenario, environment, and region, and click OK.

  7. Click Confirm. An Internet-based discovery task is created, and MgC starts collecting details about source servers.

    On the Application Discovery page, in the Discovery Task card, click View next to Total tasks.

  8. Wait until the task status changes to Succeeded. Then perform the following steps to check whether the source servers are ready for migration.

    1. Ensure that Edge has been installed in the source intranet environment and has been registered with MgC.
    2. On the Application Discovery page, click the Resources tab and click the number in the Server row.
    3. On the top of the server list, choose Migration Scenario > Server migration.
    4. Click Configure in the Migration Readiness column.
    5. Configure the parameters listed in Table 2.
      Table 2 Migration readiness parameters

      Parameter

      Configuration

      Type

      Set this parameter based on the source server OS type.

      Edge Device

      Select the Edge device in the source environment.

      IP Address

      Select the IP address for accessing the source server. It can be a public or private IP address. After the migration pre-check is passed, the IP address you select here will be used for migration.

      Port

      Enter the port on the source server opened to the Edge device.

      • By default, port 5985 on Windows source servers must be opened to the Edge device. The port cannot be changed.
      • By default, port 22 on Linux source servers must be opened to the Edge device. You can specify another port if needed.

      Credential

      Select the server credential. If the credential has not been added to MgC, go to the Edge console and add the server credential to the Edge device and synchronize it to MgC.
    6. Click Confirm. The system verifies the configuration information and starts to check whether the source server is ready for migration. If Ready is displayed in the Migration Readiness column, the source server can be migrated.

Parent topic: Discovering Servers