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Supported Scan Targets

Supported Scan Targets

Platform Support Overview

DMC supports scanning across multiple platform types. Use the cards below to navigate to specific platform information.

VMware
On-premises VMware environments
Supported
 Physical Servers
Direct data collection from physical servers
Supported
 Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V environments
Supported
Nutanix
Nutanix environments
Supported
 MS SQL
SQL Server discovery and assessment
Supported

Coming Soon

AWS
Amazon Web Services cloud platform

VMware Environment

DMC supports scanning of on-premises VMware environments.

vSphere Version Support Details
vSphere 6.0 and above Collects metrics for attached Windows and Linux virtual machines

DMC supports scanning of the below guest operating systems running on the VMware environment.

Operating System Support Details
Windows Server 2008 R2 and above Collects metrics for Windows servers
Ubuntu Collects metrics for Linux servers
Red Hat Collects metrics for Linux servers
CentOS Collects metrics for Linux servers
SUSE Collects metrics for Linux servers
Running VMware and Physical scans of the same servers will cause duplicate servers to appear in Dr Migrate.

Physical Servers

DMC supports scanning of physical Windows and Linux servers.

Operating System Support Details
Windows Server 2008 R2 and above Collects metrics for Windows servers
Ubuntu Collects metrics for Linux servers
Red Hat Collects metrics for Linux servers
CentOS Collects metrics for Linux servers
SUSE Collects metrics for Linux servers

Hyper-V

DMC supports scanning of Windows and Linux servers hosted on Hyper-V.

Operating System Support Details
Windows Server 2008 R2 and above Collects metrics for Windows servers
Ubuntu Collects metrics for Linux servers
Red Hat Collects metrics for Linux servers
CentOS Collects metrics for Linux servers
SUSE Collects metrics for Linux servers
DMC runs a ‘Physical Servers’ scan of Hyper-V hosted machines.

Nutanix

DMC supports scanning of Windows and Linux servers hosted on Nutanix.

Operating System Support Details
Windows Server 2008 R2 and above Collects metrics for Windows servers
Ubuntu Collects metrics for Linux servers
Red Hat Collects metrics for Linux servers
CentOS Collects metrics for Linux servers
SUSE Collects metrics for Linux servers
DMC runs a ‘Physical Servers’ scan of Nutanix hosted machines.

SQL Server Discovery and Assessment

DMC supports discovery and assessment of SQL Server instances across all supported scan targets.

Supported SQL Server Versions

DMC supports discovery and assessment of SQL Server instances. Supported versions differ based on the operating system platform:

SQL Server on Windows:

SQL Server Version Support Details
SQL Server 2008 and above Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2008 R2 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2012 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2014 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2016 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2017 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2019 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2022 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment

SQL Server on Linux:

SQL Server Version Support Details
SQL Server 2017 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2019 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server 2022 Full support for discovery and migration readiness assessment
SQL Server on Linux: SQL Server on Linux was introduced with SQL Server 2017. DMC supports discovery and assessment of SQL Server instances running on Linux starting from SQL Server 2017 and later versions.

SQL Server Discovery

SQL Server instances are automatically discovered during infrastructure scans (VMware, Physical, Hyper-V, and Nutanix). When SQL Server is detected on scanned machines, DMC collects instance information including:

  • SQL Server version and edition
  • Instance names and configurations
  • Database inventory
  • Server properties
Scan Target SQL Server Discovery Support
VMware SQL Server instances discovered on Windows and Linux VMs
Physical Servers SQL Server instances discovered on Windows and Linux servers
Hyper-V SQL Server instances discovered (via Physical scan mode)
Nutanix SQL Server instances discovered (via Physical scan mode)

SQL Server Assessment

SQL Server assessment is a separate workflow that can be performed after infrastructure discovery. DMC assesses SQL Server instances for Azure migration readiness.

Platform Assessment Support Authentication Methods
SQL Server on Windows Full support Windows Integrated Authentication, SQL Server Authentication
SQL Server on Linux Full support SQL Server Authentication only
SQL Server on Linux: SQL Server instances running on Linux can be discovered during infrastructure scans and assessed using DMC. However, only SQL Server Authentication is supported for SQL Server on Linux instances. Windows Integrated Authentication requires a Windows domain environment and is not available for SQL Server on Linux.
Assessment Workflow: SQL Server assessment connects over the network to SQL Server instances. The same assessment metrics are collected for SQL Server instances running on both Windows and Linux operating systems, as the assessment queries SQL Server metadata which is identical regardless of platform.

For detailed information about SQL Server assessment requirements and capabilities, see Database Assessment Requirements and SQL Assessment Metrics.

Captured Metrics

See Captured Metrics for more details about the data collected.