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A vDiscovery job retrieves information about virtual entities in cloud environments that are managed through a cloud management platform, (CMP) such as GCP. The current vDiscovery feature supports tenants, networks, and compute VMs only. It does not support data that is retrieved from load balancer networks, load balancer VMs, Kubernetes platform VMs, application gateways, service VMs, SQL VMs, or any other VMs that are created by cloud services, such as Kubernetes service or analytics service, where the IPAM is handled by the respective orchestration engines of the cloud provider.

Note

Note

You can use the values that appear by default or extend the values as per your requirements. Using less than the recommended resources can cause a reduction in performance.

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For vNIOS instances running on NIOS 9.0.4 or later, you can configure a vDiscovery job to discover and synchronize data from either a single GCP projects project like in the prior versions of NIOS, or from multiple GCP projects linked to a host project. You can configure a vDiscovery job to discover all projects in a folder or selected projects located in one or more folders.

According to the projects that a vDiscovery job must be discover, perform one of the following:

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Note

Note

  • A multi-project vDiscovery job enabled with Discover Projects option to discover all projects within a folder, discovers projects located within the folder only. Projects located in the subfolders are not discovered.

  • For limitations related to vDiscovery, see Limitations of vNIOS for GCP.

Prerequisites

Before you configure a vDiscovery job to discover data from GCP projects in NIOS, complete the following prerequisites:

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