Device attribute to distinguish physical vs. virtual devices

NetBrain currently discovers virtual systems, such as virtual appliances created on top of physical chassis or virtualized application instances, without providing a way to distinguish them from their physical counterparts. Customers must manually investigate each device type or driver to determine whether a discovered system is physical or virtual, which makes it difficult to report accurately on infrastructure composition. This enhancement would introduce a device attribute, such as a boolean flag, indicating whether a discovered device is physical or virtual, applied consistently across supported device types and drivers. Customers would benefit from the ability to quickly identify and report on the proportion of physical versus virtual devices in their environment without performing manual, per-device-type investigation.