diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/components/Workloads/GuestDrawerOverview.tsx b/frontend-modern/src/components/Workloads/GuestDrawerOverview.tsx
index d875e3502b..3582d99c2b 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/components/Workloads/GuestDrawerOverview.tsx
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/components/Workloads/GuestDrawerOverview.tsx
@@ -156,6 +156,63 @@ export function GuestDrawerOverview(props: GuestDrawerOverviewProps) {
           </div>
         </div>
 
+        {/* vSphere placement card: vCenter / Datacenter / Cluster live on
+              WorkloadGuest.vmware and aren't surfaced by System (Node already
+              shows the runtime host). Render only when the workload is a
+              vSphere VM and at least one of these fields is populated. */}
+        <Show
+          when={
+            (props.guest.platformScopes?.includes('vmware-vsphere') ?? false) &&
+            (props.guest.vmware?.connectionName ||
+              props.guest.vmware?.vcenterHost ||
+              props.guest.vmware?.datacenterName ||
+              props.guest.vmware?.clusterName)
+          }
+        >
+          <div class="rounded border border-border bg-surface p-3 shadow-sm">
+            <h3 class="text-[11px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-base-content mb-2">
+              vSphere
+            </h3>
+            <div class="space-y-1.5 text-[11px]">
+              <Show when={props.guest.vmware?.connectionName || props.guest.vmware?.vcenterHost}>
+                <div class="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 min-w-0">
+                  <span class="text-muted shrink-0">vCenter</span>
+                  <span
+                    class="font-medium text-base-content truncate"
+                    title={
+                      props.guest.vmware?.vcenterHost || props.guest.vmware?.connectionName || ''
+                    }
+                  >
+                    {props.guest.vmware?.connectionName || props.guest.vmware?.vcenterHost}
+                  </span>
+                </div>
+              </Show>
+              <Show when={props.guest.vmware?.datacenterName}>
+                <div class="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 min-w-0">
+                  <span class="text-muted shrink-0">Datacenter</span>
+                  <span
+                    class="font-medium text-base-content truncate"
+                    title={props.guest.vmware?.datacenterName || ''}
+                  >
+                    {props.guest.vmware?.datacenterName}
+                  </span>
+                </div>
+              </Show>
+              <Show when={props.guest.vmware?.clusterName}>
+                <div class="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 min-w-0">
+                  <span class="text-muted shrink-0">Cluster</span>
+                  <span
+                    class="font-medium text-base-content truncate"
+                    title={props.guest.vmware?.clusterName || ''}
+                  >
+                    {props.guest.vmware?.clusterName}
+                  </span>
+                </div>
+              </Show>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        </Show>
+
         <Show when={props.hasOsInfo || props.ipAddresses.length > 0}>
           <div class="rounded border border-border bg-surface p-3 shadow-sm">
             <h3 class="text-[11px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-base-content mb-2">
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/hooks/useWorkloads.ts b/frontend-modern/src/hooks/useWorkloads.ts
index 888c352202..7f429aa8b6 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/hooks/useWorkloads.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/hooks/useWorkloads.ts
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ type APIResource = {
   };
   vmware?: {
     connectionName?: string;
+    vcenterHost?: string;
     datacenterName?: string;
     clusterName?: string;
     runtimeHostName?: string;
@@ -513,6 +514,15 @@ const mapResourceToWorkload = (resource: APIResource): WorkloadGuest | null => {
     platformType,
     platformScopes,
     discoveryTarget,
+    vmware:
+      platformType === 'vmware-vsphere' && resource.vmware
+        ? {
+            connectionName: resource.vmware.connectionName,
+            vcenterHost: resource.vmware.vcenterHost,
+            datacenterName: resource.vmware.datacenterName,
+            clusterName: resource.vmware.clusterName,
+          }
+        : undefined,
   };
 };
 
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/types/workloads.ts b/frontend-modern/src/types/workloads.ts
index 27d3ed7b3b..8d3f65460a 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/types/workloads.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/types/workloads.ts
@@ -32,4 +32,16 @@ export type WorkloadGuest = (VM | Container) & {
   // Canonical discovery ownership. API-backed platforms such as TrueNAS should
   // only expose Discovery when the unified resource contract supplies a target.
   discoveryTarget?: ResourceDiscoveryTarget;
+  // vSphere placement context surfaced in the workload drawer's vSphere
+  // card. Only populated for resources with platformScopes containing
+  // `vmware-vsphere`. Kept narrow on purpose — operational state like
+  // Tools / snapshots / disks lives in the unified resource payload and
+  // hasn't been mapped onto WorkloadGuest because the workload drawer
+  // hasn't asked for it yet.
+  vmware?: {
+    connectionName?: string;
+    vcenterHost?: string;
+    datacenterName?: string;
+    clusterName?: string;
+  };
 };