One dataset, several decisions.
VIA takes no side. The same analysis (per-VM complexity, dependencies, risks, costs) serves your situation. Here are the four most common.
Put numbers on it before you negotiate.
License renewal, rising costs, a decision to defend to leadership. VIA surfaces the full inventory and what drives the bill, VM by VM, across 200+ rules.
What VIA surfaces
- Full inventory: vCenter (L1) and the inside of VMs (L2/L3), correlated
- Features that drive licensing cost (Windows Server, Oracle, VMware)
- CPU and RAM oversizing over 30 days of history, not a snapshot
- A dated, reproducible picture to ground the negotiation
Know what moves, and with what.
You are considering moving all or part of the estate. VIA places the real effort before you commit, without steering toward a destination.
What VIA surfaces
- Per-VM VMCS complexity score, SIMPLE to INTENSIVE, traced line by line
- Dependency groups from converging signals (connections, naming, pool, folder, vApp)
- Compatibility by destination category (five categories)
- Blockers flagged: VMware-specific features (FT, RDM, vSAN policies)
Cut risk and waste.
You are staying on VMware and want to clean house. VIA exposes what is obsolete, risky or oversized, without changing anything in your environment.
What VIA surfaces
- Infra health: end-of-life OSes, outdated VMware Tools, accumulated snapshots, CBT
- Right-sizing backed by 30-day vCenter history percentiles
- Prioritized operational risks: critical datastores, memory overcommit
- Proprietary lock-in detection, before you have to negotiate
A dated, defensible picture.
A vendor audit, compliance, or simply the need for a reliable snapshot. VIA produces proof, not an opinion.
What VIA surfaces
- Dated snapshot, deterministic and reproducible at will
- Every finding traced to its documented source, no black box
- Access and privileges (IAM) and an execution log
- JSON snapshot verifiable by SHA-256 hash
Four guarantees, whatever your decision.
Whichever scenario you recognize yourself in, the same foundation holds. These four principles are what make the analysis defensible, whatever you use it for.
Deterministic and explainable
Same inputs, same results, every run. Every score and finding is traced to its source in the collected data, with the rule that triggered it. No black box, no opaque model: you can audit the reasoning, replay it, and defend it line by line, to leadership, a vendor, or an auditor.
- Per-VM score (VMCS) traceable to its factors
- Over 200 documented rules
- Re-runnable to track how things evolve
100% local
The analysis runs entirely inside your network, from an appliance you control. Nothing is uploaded, transmitted or stored outside, and MB Tools receives no data from your environment. Agentless, read-only, no outbound calls: compatible with an isolated network. The deliverables are files on your machine.
- Agentless, read-only
- No outbound calls (air-gap compatible)
- Reports stay with you
Anonymizable
A single flag strips hostnames, IP addresses and identifiers from the report, to produce a version designed to be shared with third parties (vendors, integrators). The mapping table stays locally with you and is never transmitted. You decide what crosses your walls.
- Hostnames, IPs and identifiers removed
- Mapping table local, never transmitted
- You control what leaves
Neutral
VIA recommends no destination platform, by design. No commercial partnership, no margin on any target. We surface every relevant data point, clearly mapped and traceable, then let you and your partners have the real conversation. We show you the terrain; the climb is yours.
- No platform recommended
- No partnership or margin on any target
- The decision stays yours
In every case: no platform recommended, every data point mapped and traceable. VIA shows the terrain; the decision stays yours.