Discovery is a special type of project that contains scan jobs for the selected File shares/exports profiling each for the size of files and number of files found --this data is primarily useful for estimating how long a data movement job might take, but there may be other uses as well. The "Discover Now" function examines the systems for NFS and SMB assets to create a "Discovery" project and jobs. The feature provides the ability to examine the Cloud Storage systems for Cloud assets.

To access the "Discovery" screen perform the following process steps:

1. Click on the Discovery link under the DATA SERVICES banner. This will expand to show the administrative options.

This will display the Discovery - File Storage screen.

The Discovery landing page (title outlined in blue) will show a row or grid of cards containing Filer information from Storage System, each File tile will show:

1. The Filer Label (outlined in green).
2. Other Filer Order Information (outlined in brown).
3. The Count of All Associated File Storage Connections [(tProtocol) and Shares/Mounts (tFSShare)] (outlined in purple).
4. Project Settings (outlined in pink).

Note:
The storage systems listed on the Discovery landing page are local storage set up on the Local File Storage page.