Capabilities Matrix

Platforms and Browsers

Providers

The following table lists providers that ManageIQ can manage.

Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS
Ansible AWX
Foreman
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
IBM AutoSDE
IBM Cloud VPC
IBM Power HMC
IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers (PowerVS)
IBM PowerVC
IBM Terraform
Kubernetes
KubeVirt
Lenovo xClarity
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure Stack
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Nuage Networks
OpenStack
Oracle Cloud
oVirt
Red Hat Ansible Tower
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP)
Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Redfish
VMware vCloud
VMware vSphere
VMware NSX-t

Runtime Platforms

The following table lists platforms on which ManageIQ can be installed and run from. They can be obtained from the downloads page.

Platform	Form Factor
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	Appliance
Docker	Monolithic Container
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	Appliance
IBM Cloud	Appliance
Kubernetes	Podified
libvirt	Appliance
Microsoft Azure	Appliance
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)	Appliance
OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)	Podified
OpenStack	Appliance
oVirt	Appliance
QEmu/KVM	Appliance
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)	Appliance
Vagrant	Appliance
VMware vSphere	Appliance

Web Browsers

The following table lists the browsers that are known to work with ManageIQ.

Browser
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge

Provider Capabilities

ManageIQ allows you to discover and interact with various providers. What follows are the capabilities available in various areas for the providers under management.

Infrastructure Providers

The following tables outline the capabilities of ManageIQ that are known to work for various virtual infrastructure providers.

Discovery	vSphere	oVirt / RHV	SCVMM	OpenStack undercloud	IBM Power HMC	KubeVirt
Compute Inventory	✅	✅	✅	✅ (Nodes and Services)	✅	✅
Network Inventory	✅	✅ (OVN)	❌	❌	✅	❌
Storage Inventory	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
Events	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Metrics	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Forensic Analysis (SmartState)	✅	✅	❌	✅ (Nodes)	❌	❌

General Features	vSphere	oVirt / RHV	SCVMM	OpenStack undercloud	IBM Power HMC	KubeVirt
Relationship Discovery	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Drift Comparison	✅	✅	✅	✅ (Nodes)	❌	❌
VM Genealogy	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Capacity & Utilization	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
VM Event Timelines	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
Infrastructure Event Timelines	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Reporting	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Right Sizing	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Chargeback by Allocation	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Chargeback by Usage	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Automation Work Flows	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Tag Mapping from Provider	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Tag Mapping to Provider	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
VM Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
VM Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Alerts - Real Time	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Alerts - VM Value Changed	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Alerts - VM Reconfigured	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Integrate with Service Catalogs	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Operations	vSphere	oVirt / RHV	SCVMM	OpenStack undercloud	IBM Power HMC	KubeVirt
VM Remote Console Access (see section below)	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
VM Power Operations	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
VM Provisioning
- using PXE	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- using ISO	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- from Template to VM	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
- from VM to Template	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
- Clone from VM to VM	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Sysprep Windows Templates	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Cloud-init	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
VM Retirement	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
VM Reconfiguration	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Disk Addition	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Network Interface Add/Remove	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
VM Snapshot Creation and Removal	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Host Power Operations	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌
Node Operations						❌
- Add/Remove Node	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
- Scale Down Node	❌	❌	❌	✅ (Compute nodes only)	❌	❌
- Scale Up Nodes	❌	❌	❌	✅ (Compute nodes only)	❌	❌
- Nodes Policy Enforcement	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
- Nodes Evacuate	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Create Cloud Network	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Delete Cloud Network	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Create Cloud Subnet	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Delete Cloud Subnet	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Create Network Router	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Delete Network Router	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌

Remote Consoles

Provider	Connection Type
vSphere 6.0	VNC
	VMRC
	WebMKS
vSphere 6.5+	VMRC
	WebMKS
RHV	SPICE
SCVMM	N/A
KubeVirt	SPICE

Cloud Providers

The following tables outline the capabilities of ManageIQ that are known to work for various cloud providers.

Discovery	AWS	Azure	GCP	OpenStack	IBM CIC	PowerVC	PowerVS	IBM VPC	Oracle
Compute Inventory	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- Key Pairs	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Network Inventory	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- Cloud Networks	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- Cloud Subnets	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- Floating IP Addresses	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
- Load Balancers	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
- Network Managers	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
- Network Manager Relations	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
- Network Ports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
- Network Routers	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
- Security Groups	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	N/A	❌
Storage Inventory	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- Storage Manager	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
- Volumes	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Events	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Metrics	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
Forensic Analysis (SmartState)	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

General Features	AWS	Azure	GCP	OpenStack	IBM CIC	PowerVC	PowerVS	IBM VPC	Oracle
Relationship Discovery	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Instance Drift Comparison	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Instance Genealogy	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Capacity & Utilization	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
Instance Event Timelines	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Cloud Layer Timelines	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Reporting	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Right Sizing	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Chargeback by Allocation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Chargeback by Usage	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Automation Work Flows	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Tag Mapping from Provider	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
Tag Mapping to Provider	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Instance Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Instance Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Alerts - Real Time	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Integrate with Service Catalogs	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

Operations	AWS	Azure	GCP	OpenStack	IBM CIC	PowerVC	PowerVS	IBM VPC	Oracle
Instance Remote Console Access	❌	❌	❌	✅ (VNC)	✅ (VNC)	✅ (NovaLink-managed hosts only)	❌	❌	❌
Instance Power Operations	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Instance Provisioning	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- from Image to Instance	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
- from Image Snapshot to Instance	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- from Volume to Instance	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- from Volume Snapshot to Instance	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- from Orchestration Template	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Cloud-init	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
- Sysprep Windows Templates	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	N/A	❌
Instance Retirement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Instance Reconfiguration	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
- Disk Addition	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
Instance Migration	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	❌
Instance Snapshot Creation and Removal	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Key Pairs Management	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Network Manager - CRUD Actions	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
- Create/Update/Delete Network	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
- Create/Update/Delete Subnet	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
- Create/Update/Delete Routers	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Volume Creation/Deletion	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Cloud Database - CRUD Actions	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅

Container Providers

The following table outlines the capabilities of ManageIQ for various container providers.

Feature	OpenShift	Kubernetes	Amazon EKS	Google GKE	Azure AKS	Oracle OKE	IBM Cloud IKS	VMware Tanzu
Relationship Discovery	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Track Container Image Relationship	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Capacity & Utilization	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Capture Container Event Timelines	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Reporting	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Chargeback by Allocation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Chargeback by Usage	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Remote Cockpit Node Access	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Container Node Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Container Node Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Replicator Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Replicator Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pod Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pod Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Image Compliance Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Image Policy Enforcement	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Template Provisioning	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Smart State	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
OpenSCAP Execution and Report	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Cross Linking Underlying Infrastructure	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Tag Mapping from Provider	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Tag Mapping to Provider	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Automation Providers

The following table outlines the capabilities of ManageIQ that are known to work for various automation providers.

Feature	Ansible Tower / AWX	Embedded Ansible	Automate Engine
Groups Inventory	✅	❌	❌
Configured Systems Inventory	✅	❌	❌
Job Template Inventory	✅	❌	❌
Integrate with Service Catalog	✅	✅	✅
Automate Workflows	✅	✅	✅

Network Providers

The following tables outline the capabilities of ManageIQ that are known to work for various network providers.

Discovery	Nuage	NSX-t
Cloud Tenants	✅	✅
Cloud Networks	✅	✅
Cloud Subnets	✅	✅
Security Groups	✅	✅
Security Policies	❌	✅
Network Services	❌	✅
Floating IPs	✅	❌
Network Ports	✅	✅
Network Routers	✅	✅
Events	✅	❌
Metrics	❌	❌

Operations	Nuage	NSX-t
Create Cloud Network	✅	✅
Create Cloud Subnet	✅	❌
Delete Cloud Subnet	✅	❌
Delete Floating IP	✅	❌
Create Security Group	❌	✅
Delete Security Group	✅	❌
Create Security Policy	❌	✅

Physical Infrastructure Providers

The following tables outline the capabilities of ManageIQ that are known to work for various physical infrastructure providers.

Discovery	Cisco Intersight	Lenovo XClarity	Redfish
Chassis	✅	✅	✅
Racks	✅	✅	✅
Physical Servers	✅	✅	✅
Physical Storages	❌	✅	❌
Physical Switches	✅	✅	❌
Events	✅	✅	✅
Metrics	✅	❌	❌

Operations	Cisco Intersight	Lenovo XClarity	Redfish
PXE Provisioning	✅	✅	✅
Server Firmware Upgrade	✅	❌	✅
Server Power Operations	✅	✅	✅

Smart State Analysis Capabilities

ManageIQ allows you to analyze virtual machines and instances on the providers it manages to collect information about the base operating system on those virtual machines or instances, their virtual hardware, installed applications, and other details. This operation is known as SmartState analysis. The sections below outline what ManageIQ can parse.

Volume Managers

Volume Manager	OS Family	Known To Work
Logical Disk Manager (LDM)	Windows	✅
Logical Volume Manager (Linux)	Linux	✅

File Systems

File System	OS Family	Known To Work
FAT	Windows	✅
FAT32	Windows	✅
NTFS	Windows	✅
ReFS	Windows	❌
Ext3	Linux	✅
Ext4	Linux	✅
XFS	Linux	✅
ReiserFS	Linux	✅
CDfs	Linux	✅

File Formats

File Format	OS Family	Known To Work
Registry	Windows	✅
Win32 Accounts	Windows	✅
Win32 Event Log	Windows	✅
Win32 Services	Windows	✅
Win32 Software	Windows	✅
Win32 System	Windows	✅
SQLite	Linux	✅
Berkeley DB (BDB)	Linux	✅
Conary	Linux	✅
RPM	Linux	✅
/etc/passwd	Linux	✅
/etc/group	Linux	✅
/etc/init.d	Linux	✅
/etc/systemd	Linux	✅