# Morpheus Discovery

Morpheus has the ability to ingest existing environments. Existing running workloads will be inventoried into Morpheus and displayed in the UI. In 5-7 days Morpheus will start making recommendations based off of usage and pricing.

NOTE

Workloads that are inventoried do not have to be converted to managed.

Once inventoried, Morpheus can provide valuable data for that instance:

- Morpheus will know about networks
- Start aggregating cost on public clouds
- Start tracking usage
- Some Clouds offer statistical details ( Amazon / VMware)
- Power Status

Right away inventorying existing environments will provide you with immediate insight to that environment. Once an existing workload has been discovered it can be converted to managed. Once converted to managed, Morpheus can deliver more capabilities and features.

NOTE

Workloads do not need the agent installed to be managed

Once a workload is managed:

- Enforce expiration/shutdown policies. This helps reign in environments (sprawl) and reduce cost.
- Can tell what instance type it is
- Can install agent (agent is optional)
- Installing agent provides credentials and allows you to run workflows against it (day 2 operations)
