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kodaksmile
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Jan 19, 2021

Limitation of CSV import

Hi - I work in FSI and have a customer that cannot run the appliance against their production workload.  When they attempt to upload the CSV file they hit the limit on the number of disks per VM whic...
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kodaksmile
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Jan 19, 2021

rashijoshi Their system is mission critical (they lose a lot of money when it's down) and has had outages due to spikes in the workload.  They will not run anything new directly against the machines involved.  They are already collecting performance metrics from their storage (Pure Storage), VMWare and monitoring tools.  

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rashijoshi
Former Employee
Jan 19, 2021

kodaksmile I understand. Though Azure Migrate appliance discovers metadata and performance data of machines from vCenter in an agentless way. You can then perform an assessment even with 1 day worth of performance data. Linking the architecture here: Azure Migrate appliance architecture - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs

We will keep the thread posted when we release support for more than 8 disks per VM through the import method.