Discovery VM run on premises and registered to exactly one Azure Migrate project; it is deployed from a Hyper-V VHD, a VMware OVA or an installer script, finds servers without agents and collects the performance data that assessments draw on.
Also called Azure Migrate collector.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Migrate project
Resource created in the destination subscription to store what Azure Migrate discovers and assesses; it is separate from the appliance running on premises.
- Hyper-V
The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.
- VHD
A disk image format for virtual hard disks; the Azure Migrate appliance for Hyper-V, for instance, is downloaded as one.
- OVA
Open Virtual Appliance, a VM packaged as a single file; the Azure Migrate appliance for VMware is shipped this way, for example.
- Performance
Routing method in Traffic Manager that directs users to whichever endpoint offers the lowest latency.