VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics tool is a self-service diagnostics platform. This tool helps to detect issues in the vSphere and vSAN product line and provides recommendations in the form of a Knowledge Base article or remediation procedures to address the identified issues. vSphere administrators can use this tool to troubleshoot issues before contacting VMware Global Support Service.

VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics supports VMware vCenter plugin registration from its user interface. You can register with VMware vCenter Server on or above 7.0. After successful plugin registration, you can trigger the diagnostics on VMware vCenter Server, monitor the task status and view the analysis report from vSphere client interface itself.

For more information, refer VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Installation, Configuration and Operations Guide.

Register VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics plugin from vSphere Client

You can register VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics plugin with VMware vCenter server to perform all the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics operations from vSphere HTML client. As an operator, you might want to register VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics plugins on vSphere client as single point for perfoming Health and Diagnostics and view reports.

Prerequisites

  1. VMware vCenter Server with 8.0 U1 or greater version should in present.
  2. You should have valid vSphere SSO administrator credentials.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Client using the supported browser and SSO credentials.
  2. In the top-menu, click Menu > Skyline Health Diagnostics. The landing page of Skyline Health Diagnostics plugin gets displayed.
  3. Click on the go to Skyline Health Diagnostics link next to Get OVA Files, to open Download Skyline Health Diagnostics OVA page.
  4. Click DOWNLOAD NOW button to start the OVA download.
  5. Navigate to vSphere Client and click Install Skyline Health Diagnostics to open the install OVA wizard.
  6. Use the OVA downloaded from local and proceed for installation. Provide all the required details for deploying the OVA and submit the task.
  7. Post successful deployment of OVA and plugin registration, the Skyline Health Diagnostics Plugin landing page changes to Skyline Health Diagnostics Plugin home page.

Results

Deployment of Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance and registration of VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics plugin with VMware vCenter Server is successful and the client plugin of Skyline Health Diagnostics is visible in vSphere client.

For more information, refer Registering VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Plugin with VMware vCenter Server in VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Product Documentation.

Use VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Plugin from vSphere Client

You can use the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostic plugin from vSphere Client.

As a vSphere system administrator, you can use this plugin to intiate diagnostics run, run health checks, view the analysis report and manage the configurations. For detailed steps in using this plugin from vSphere Client, refer VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Product Documentation.