01 VMware estate hierarchy
Navigate vCenter, data centers, clusters, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, datastores and virtual networks with consistent entity relationships.
02 Contention and capacity
Inspect host and VM performance, resource pressure, cluster health and capacity. Bring the affected resource and relevant historical window into the investigation.
03 Other virtualization platforms
Monitor Hyper-V, Nutanix and Proxmox hierarchies alongside VMware, including host, VM, container, storage and network relationships. Use each platform’s Capability Pack to retain the metrics, source details and dependencies exposed by its APIs.
04 Storage performance
Connect capacity, utilization, IOPS, throughput and latency with pools, volumes, controllers, disks and their consumers.
05 Replication and hardware health
Inspect supported storage replication and component-health evidence alongside host and database symptoms.
06 SAN and Fibre Channel
Explore fabric, switch, port, zone and WWN relationships with link errors, congestion and utilization where the vendor interface exposes them.
07 Out-of-band evidence
Use compatible Redfish/IPMI and vendor iDRAC/iLO/CIMC sources for chassis, CPU/DIMM, RAID, PSU, fans, temperatures, batteries, NICs and lifecycle events.
08 Power and environment
Relate supported UPS, PDU, temperature, humidity, power, cooling and rack-sensor observations to infrastructure incidents.
09 Cross-vantage diagnostics
Compare the endpoint view with hypervisor, datastore, fabric, network and hardware observations. Missing or contradictory evidence stays explicit.
10 Lifecycle and optimization context
Review firmware/model support evidence and capacity trends. The specialist scope adds evidence-backed rightsizing, idle-resource, snapshot, orphan and imbalance recommendations.