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Five scan modules capture virtualized environments. Each breaks the environment into several assets: the management level, the hosts, the guests, and for some of them the virtual switches or bridges.

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VMware

Five types:

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Hyper-V

Three types: the Hyper-V Server with host configuration (host settings, virtual switches, cluster configuration, replication service) and its VMs, the Hyper-V VM with VM settings (BIOS boot order, checkpoints, security settings), Services & Availability, and Hardware Configuration, and the Hyper-V Switch with its assigned network adapters.

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Nutanix

Four types: the Nutanix cluster with all sixteen areas in a single Configuration group — network, security and storage settings plus images, volume groups and VMs — the Nutanix Host with operating state and system components, the Nutanix VM, and the Nutanix Virtual Switch with bond mode, MTU and the uplinks per host.
Nutanix is the only one of the five environments that carries security policies twice — once at the cluster level, once at the hypervisor level. The Security Compliance and Hypervisor Security Compliance areas are not the same thing.

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Proxmox

Five types: the Proxmox cluster with eight groups — more than any other type on this page — for Storage & Backup, Access Control, Software-Defined Networking, Security & Access, High Availability, Resource Mapping and advanced features (pools, Ceph); the Proxmox Node with hardware, storage and enterprise features (Ceph, certificates, subscription); the Proxmox VM and the Proxmox Linux Container, both with configuration, snapshots and firewall rules; and the Proxmox Bridge, a node’s network bridge with bridge ports, IP configuration and options.
Only the Proxmox VM additionally carries a VM Agent group — guest operating system, timezone, logged-in users and file systems as reported by the optional QEMU guest agent. The Linux container has no such group.

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Citrix Xen

Four types: the XenServer (pool) with Pooling & Availability, Storage & Network and VMs & Workloads, the XenServer Host with Configuration (authentication, license, restrictions), Runtime and System Components, the XenServer Network, and the XenServer VM with configuration, devices & connections, and snapshots. Nutanix has its own scan module chapter: Nutanix. For VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox and Xen, credentials and target details are in the Scan Reference. How these environments’ network data feeds into the shared network view is described under Network and Devices. How a VM connects to its host is shown in the Relations tab.