OneIQ in practice
From advanced infrastructure planning to autonomic and self-healing systems.
Planning
Use Cases that surface capacity risk, lifecycle exposure, refresh pipelines, and cloud cost - without touching the full estate.
An agent scoped to production clusters surfaces at-risk hosts, trending headroom, and a recommended action - without ever touching the rest of the estate.
Scoped to a defined fleet, the agent returns which hosts are running end-of-support OS versions, what's exposed, and what the remediation path looks like - enriched with vendor lifecycle data.
Aging hardware identified, costed, and prioritised into a migration sequence. The zone returns the refresh candidates, estimated cost, and a phased wave plan - the starting point for your next hardware conversation.
A unified view across cloud and on-prem, scoped to what's actually wasteful. The agent surfaces over-provisioned workloads, idle instances, and the blended cost picture - so the conversation moves from "should we optimise" to "here's exactly what to do."
Operational
Governed zones that answer operational questions in real time - without an agent ever touching the full estate.
When something pages, an agent scoped to the affected environment returns probable cause, contended resources, and a recommended action - before the on-call engineer has finished coffee.
Before a maintenance window opens, an agent scoped to the change envelope returns blast radius, dependent workloads, and shared storage paths - so the team knows what they're touching before they touch it.
Continuous agent queries flag workloads trending outside agreed performance envelopes before they breach SLA - giving your team the conversation before the customer has it.
Commercial
Use cases that directly produce proposals, savings conversations, and recurring managed service opportunities.
A single agent query across a customer's estate produces a governed infrastructure health report - refresh pipeline, cloud candidates, lifecycle risk - ready to export as a proposal or QBR deck in minutes.
An agent scoped to software inventory surfaces over-provisioned and unlicensed deployments - the data your customer needs to renegotiate their renewal, and the conversation you need to be leading.
Power draw and density data enriched with carbon intensity, giving customers a data-centre ESG report they can take to their sustainability team - and opening a managed efficiency conversation for you.
Security & Compliance
Governed zones that surface exposure, close audit gaps, and produce evidence packages - without an agent ever reading more than it needs to.
A zone scoped to the perimeter surfaces hosts running end-of-life OS with public-facing ports open - prioritised by CVSS score, so remediation effort goes to the highest risk first.
An inventory of workloads still relying on implicit trust - flat network segments, no microsegmentation - prioritised by criticality. The starting point for the zero-trust programme your customer keeps deferring.
On-demand agent query produces a point-in-time snapshot of the estate - patch compliance, access controls, inventory - packaged as an evidence bundle for ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, or SOC 2 submissions.
Specialist
High-value zones for specific estate types and one-time commercial situations where governed infrastructure intelligence changes the outcome.
A zone scoped to virtual desktop pools surfaces over-provisioned desktop VMs and recommends consolidation targets - turning an inherited sprawl into a licensing and infrastructure saving conversation.
Cross-referencing production inventory against backup job coverage surfaces unprotected workloads and stale restore verification - the gaps your customer doesn't know they have until they need them.
Rapid estate discovery and enrichment during an acquisition gives the acquiring team a governed view of inherited infrastructure - vendor mix, EoS exposure, cloud spend, and integration complexity - within hours of access.
Autonomous & Agentic Loops
OneIQ ICG doesn't execute - it sees. Third-party autonomous and self-healing systems hook into OneIQ ICG as their read-only, scoped view of the estate. The governance constraint is what makes autonomous action acceptable to security teams.
An autonomous remediation system queries OneIQ ICG to assess current estate state, executes a corrective action, then re-queries OneIQ ICG to verify the fix. OneIQ ICG is the governed perception layer - the execution system never touches the estate directly through OneIQ ICG.
A planning agent and an execution agent hold different zones. The planning agent sees the full estate to reason about what to do. The execution agent is scoped only to what it is about to touch. OneIQ ICG enforces the boundary between them - by design, not by policy.
An orchestration platform polls OneIQ ICG on a schedule. The agent wakes, queries a zone, and acts only if state has changed beyond a threshold. Lightweight, governed, continuous intelligence - without standing access to the estate or a persistent agent session.
How to integrate
Any autonomous system, orchestration platform, or agentic framework that supports the Model Context Protocol can connect to OneIQ ICG and query a zone. OneIQ supplies the governed infrastructure intelligence - your platform supplies the execution logic.
Live zone, any environment
Any of the zones above, on infrastructure your customer already runs. Most VMware accounts are re-evaluating their estate right now — this is a conversation worth starting.
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