Liongard VMware Read

Read VMware estate state (vCenter/ESXi) for CLIENT_NAME from the Liongard VMware inspector. Read-only — never delete snapshots, migrate VMs, or change host config.

1. Resolve the client's environment, then find the VMware inspector(s) and confirm each ran recently — carry "as of <timestamp>." A client may have a vCenter inspector plus standalone-host inspectors — enumerate.
2. Read the values from the latest dataprint for the angle you need, verifying every field angle against the live dataprint (schemas vary by inspector version):
   - Datastores: name, capacity, free — compute % free and flag <20% (warning) and <10% (urgent).
   - Snapshots: VMs with snapshots, age and size where present — flag snapshots older than 72h and any chain deeper than 2; snapshots on high-churn VMs (mail, SQL) get called out even younger. Backup software often owns transient snapshots — recommend "review for deletion," never "delete," and flag that consolidation on a near-full datastore needs free space.
   - Hosts: ESXi version + build per host — mixed builds within a cluster is a finding; report versions verbatim and recommend verifying support status against VMware/Broadcom lifecycle notices rather than asserting EOL from memory.
   - VM inventory: name, power state, host, datastore — the placement map; powered-off VMs consuming large disk are a cleanup lead.
3. "What changed?" → check what changed: VM adds/deletes, host changes, datastore changes ordered against the window. New-snapshot detections right before a space alert tell the whole story (time-adjacency, not proven cause).
4. Capacity numbers are as-of the last inspector run — on an active space incident, state the age and defer to live tooling for the current number. Output: capacity table, snapshot findings, host-version table, flags with severity, source + data age. Offer to leave a plain-text note. Degradation: inspector absent → documentation → ticket history.