VMware Skyline Advisor Pro is a self-service cloud offering that proactively identifies potential issues and provides resolution guidance.

Note:

As of April 1, 2024, VMware Skyline no longer supports new onboarding of Cloud Services Organizations nor new activation of Skyline in an existing Cloud Services Organization. Existing customers who have activated Skyline within a Cloud Services Organization can continue to use Skyline Advisor Pro.

VMware Skyline Advisor Pro is a self-service web application that allows you to view proactive findings and recommendations on-demand within a web browser. It provides accelerated analysis that surfaces issues, remediation updates, and inventory changes in approximately 24 hours, giving you more time to act on its findings and recommendations and higher confidence that your environment is up to date.

You can access VMware Skyline Advisor Pro if you have installed and configured VMware Skyline Collector™ version 3.5.

The following information is available within Skyline Advisor Pro:

  • Account, Environment, and Collector details.Inventory details for VMware vSphere™, NSX-V, NSX-T, Horizon 7, VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations Manager), VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager), VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation), and VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)

  • All findings discovered by VMware Skyline with both individual and consolidated
  • Insights Reports
  • Historic Findings
  • Streamlined support bundle upload capabilities with Skyline Log Assist
  • Skyline Insights API

VMware Skyline provides findings and recommendations for the following products:

  • VMware vSphere

  • VMware NSX-V

  • VMware NSX-T

  • VMware vSAN

  • Horizon 7

  • VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations Manager)

  • VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager)

  • VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation)

  • VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)

See the Skyline Planning and Deployment Guide for more information.

Intended Audience

This information is for existing Skyline users. It is written for VMware® vSphere® administrators.