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Discover virtual appliances
The last step in the new NIM Server setup is to collect inventory from IBM System Director on
this NIM Server in order to discover the virtual appliances imported earlier:
smcli collectinv -n <nim_server_name> -p "All Inventory"
After succesfully collecting the inventory, the Image repository should show up in the
VMControl Virtual Appliances tab (System Configuration VMControl Virtual
Appliances). The name of your image repository will be the name of your new NIM Server.
3.3.4 Effective migration
This section provides migration guidance.
Discovery, Request Access and collect ...