Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning User Guide

Important:The product name for this user guide has changed from Foundation and Cloudscape to Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning. Previous UI pages known as Foundation have changed to Business Service Discovery. Previous UI pages known as CloudScape have changed to Migration Planning.

Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning (formerly RISC Networks) helps you make better-informed decisions when moving your applications to the cloud. It provides complete, automated discovery of business applications, networks, security threats, dependency mapping and cloud migration planning, as well as business case analysis.

With Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning, every IT decision will be well informed because you can illuminate your entire IT landscape. This insight empowers you to quickly and efficiently navigate to the cloud using an accurate analysis of what workloads should be migrated—and in what order.

To learn how to use Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning, see the following sections:

Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning User Guide

Section	Description
Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning Overview	Provides a technical introduction to the Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning platform. You should understand what and how we collect, how we are architected and deployed, and our security procedures/policies.
Getting Started With Business Service Discovery and Migration Planning	Explains how to deploy the virtual appliance, perform complete discovery with proper troubleshooting, and proceed to the performance collection phase successfully.
Using the Platform	Provides you with instructions on how to operate, interpret, and utilize the platform after the Discovery and Inventory phases are successfully completed.