NEW Skyline Advisor Release March 25 2021: Expanded Proactive Issue Avoidance and More

NEW Skyline Advisor Release March 25 2021: Expanded Proactive Issue Avoidance and More

We’re pleased to announce a new Skyline Advisor release with expanded proactive issue avoidance, Log Assist enhancements, enhanced email notifications and new Findings & Recommendations. 

A summary of the new features is below. For additional details review the Skyline Advisor Release Notes. Log into Skyline Advisor today to see the new enhancements!     

New features:    

Expanded Proactive Issue Avoidance

Additional Findings & Recommendations for VMware vSAN, vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols), NSX-T, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and more: 

We released 41 new proactive Findings and Recommendations in the following categories:    

  • Technical Support Trending Issues – Alert you to top issues based on our analysis of common Support Requests opened by customers  
  • Technical Support Post Escalation Issues - Alert you to issues based on post escalation analysis to help prevent you from experiencing similar escalations  
  • vCenter Alarms – Top vSphere alarms as defined by VMware Technical Support
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – We are introducing TKG Findings to alert you to potential issues with container solutions
  • VMware Security Advisories – We continue to include Security Advisories to alert you to objects that are vulnerable to known security risks
  • Skyline Health for vSphere and vSAN Alignment – Ensure that vSphere and vSAN Findings are available in both Skyline Advisor and Skyline Health for vSphere/vSAN 

 Log Assist Enhancements 

Improved UI to help enable successful automated support log bundle transfer to VMware Technical Support and segment tracking for the number of hosts and objects selected in a particular log transfer.  

Enhanced Email Notifications

Inclusion of Organization ID and Organization Name in login inactivity emails to alert customers to the specific Skyline organizations that have not been logged into recently. 

SPECIAL OFFER: All Skyline customers are eligible for a free, 30-day trial experience of vRealize Operations Cloud! Just click on ‘Sign Up’ on the Operational Overview dashboard accessed via the main Skyline Advisor dashboard. 

   

Comments

Thank you for the update @mclopton,

Do we have to update to the Skyline Appliance v2.7 to be eligible for the above features?

Hi @AlbertWT , this was a Skyline Advisor release only, not a Collector release, so you do not need to upgrade to Collector v2.7 to access these new features. We do recommend you upgrade when you can, though, as some features, including Bulk Product End Point Configuration, are only available in the latest Collector releases.

Thanks for reaching out! 

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