To determine the current consumption of compute and storage resources, a Fabric Administrator could examine 'Infrastructure > Compute Resources,' where they can view detailed information about compute resources. Additionally, the 'Home' area can display custom widgets that show usage metrics, providing an overview of resource consumption. 'Infrastructure > Reservation Policies' focuses on policies rather than actual consumption, and 'Administration > Business Groups' pertains to administrative settings that may not directly reflect resource usage data relevant to a Fabric Administrator.

To assign an approval policy to a specific catalog item and produce the minimum number of entitlements, the steps would typically involve creating a new entitlement specifically for that item. This ensures that the approval policy is applied only to the CentOSWeb item, avoiding any inclusion of other items in the LinuxServers service. Therefore, the action of creating a new entitlement is essential.

Custom resources are a type of provisioned item mapped to an existing vRealize Orchestrator object type. This means they are specific resources that are tailored to interact directly with predefined vRealize Orchestrator objects, providing customization and advanced service capabilities in the automation environment.

To create a new Tenant in vRealize Automation, the three mandatory steps are: specifying Tenant information, configuring local user(s), and appointing Tenant administrator(s). Configuring custom branding and configuring Tenant specific email servers are optional steps that are not required for the initial creation of a Tenant.

In vRealize Automation Extensibility Lifecycles, the virtual machine properties are passed to subscription workflows using the property Extensibility.Lifecycle.Properties. Additionally, the current value of '*' indicates that all properties will be passed. Therefore, the valid scenarios are related to virtual machine properties being passed to subscription workflows and the use of '*' to pass all properties.