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VMware estate assessment & VCF 9 readiness
Point InfraScope at vCenter. It reads the estate, scores it against Broadcom's published compatibility data for your target release, and hands back the remediation plan — entirely inside your own network.
85–100
Ready
Cleared for the target release.
70–84
Minor gaps
Upgradeable with named remediations.
50–69
At risk
Material blockers — plan before committing.
0–49
Blocked
Cannot reach this release as it stands.
An empty estate scores zero, not one hundred. InfraScope never reports readiness it has not observed.
Register vCenter Server, SDDC Manager, VCF Fleet Manager, NSX Manager, Aria Suite Lifecycle or Dell VxRail Manager. Each source syncs hourly, six-hourly, daily or weekly. A credential is tested before it is stored, and a sync that fails part-way leaves the previous inventory intact rather than half-replacing it.
Every host's model, firmware and PCI devices matched against Broadcom's published data for your target release: supported, unsupported, or manual-verify. Manual-verify is reported as manual-verify — InfraScope does not guess when the HCL is silent.
0–100, weighted 50% hardware, 30% drivers and 20% software. A supported item scores full credit, one needing manual verification scores half, an unsupported one scores none. Every check that fed the score is listed, and a check that did not apply is excluded from the denominator rather than counted as a pass.
Each failing check carries the specific fix and can be marked resolved, skipped or re-checked as you work through it, so the plan tracks reality. The score itself stays as it was: it records what the estate looked like when the run happened, and the way to move it is to re-run the analysis.
Twenty-two rows in three views — Plan, Timeline and RACI — with gates, freeze windows, a risk register and an escalation path. Exportable to Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
No outbound connection is required for any of it. Licences are Ed25519-signed and verified offline against a file staged on the appliance. Credentials are encrypted at rest with Fernet, and passwords never appear in the audit log.
Register your source — point InfraScope at vCenter, SDDC Manager or VCF Fleet Manager. Credentials are verified before they are stored, and encrypted at rest.
Discover the estate — hosts, clusters, VMs, datastores, networks and every PCI device are read and stored, on the schedule you set.
Assess against your target — the estate is scored against Broadcom's compatibility data: 50% hardware, 30% drivers, 20% software.
Act on the plan — take the recommended upgrade path, the remediation plan, and the delivery programme behind it.
No. Discovery, scoring, reporting and licence verification all work with no outbound route. The licence is verified offline against a signed entitlement file.
No. InfraScope connects outward to your managers and stores everything on the appliance.
vCenter at minimum. SDDC Manager, VCF Fleet Manager, NSX, vRLCM and VxRail Manager add coverage for the components they own.
Read-only is sufficient for discovery. InfraScope reads inventory and configuration; it does not change your estate.
Discovery takes minutes to hours depending on estate size. The assessment runs in minutes after that.
50% hardware, 30% drivers and 20% software, banded at 85, 70 and 50. Every contributing check is listed.
It is reported as manual-verify — an explicit gap for a human to close, never silently passed or failed. It scores half credit rather than none, so an unknown does not read as a failure.
The score records what the estate looked like when the analysis ran, so marking a finding resolved does not retroactively change it. Re-run the analysis once the fix is in place and the new run will show the new figure.
Yes, via portable export. The archive carries no credentials by design; they are re-entered and re-verified on arrival.
It degrades rather than detonates. There is a 14-day grace period first; after it, registering a source, syncing and running an analysis stop, but signing in still works, every existing assessment and finding stays readable, and no administrator is locked out.
There are two roles. Administrators run the appliance — users, projects, certificates, licences, backups and the audit log. Assessment SMEs see only the projects they are a member of, and an archived project stops being visible to them immediately. Everything either role does is recorded in the audit log.
Two clocks run at once: 30 minutes of inactivity, and 8 hours from sign-in that nothing extends. You are warned before either expires. Five failed sign-ins for the same identifier within 15 minutes locks it out.
Twenty-four pre-upgrade checks across vCenter, ESXi, drivers, vSAN, networking, identity, storage, SDDC Manager, Aria and VxRail, each rated Critical, Mandatory or Recommended. Some are answered by Broadcom's vSphere Diagnostic Tool when you supply an SSH credential; without one they report as not-applicable rather than guessing.
Yes — a Word report, a PowerPoint deck and an Excel plan, all generated on the appliance from the same data the console shows, so the three cannot disagree. They are downloaded when you ask for them and never stored on the appliance.
The appliance answers questions about itself offline, from the help catalogue that ships in the OVA. These are the questions it deliberately will not answer, because a confident reply would be a fabricated one — they come to us instead.
Entitlement, renewals and key reissue
The appliance verifies a licence offline. It holds no record of what was purchased.
A host the HCL calls unsupported that you believe is supported
InfraScope reports Broadcom's published data. It does not arbitrate it.
A figure that looks wrong, or a screen that will not load
A reproducible defect needs a human and a build number, not a guess.
Session timeouts, TLS the console cannot install, network reconfiguration
Appliance-level change is deliberately not self-service.
VCF 9.x and Fleet Manager against a production 9.x estate
That path is not yet verified end to end against a real 9.x fleet.
Anything about your contract, timeline or commercial terms
Not something the appliance knows or should speculate about.
Deployment and administration guides ship with the product rather than living here, so they always match the version you are running.
InfraScope ships its own help: every screen and dialog documented, guided troubleshooters, and search — all of it offline, inside the appliance. Open Help & Support in the console, or press Ctrl + / anywhere.
The thinking behind the approach — migration strategy, cloud modernisation and readiness assessment.
What these engagements looked like in practice, and what came out of them.
Send us the product name and what you are trying to do, and we will route it to the right engineer. We aim to respond within one business day.
