SHD 4.0.0 Major release out

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 Announcing Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD) Major release of version 4.0.0 availability for all our customers and partners.  

SHD 4.0.0 Release Highlights:-

• New Features:

• Introduction of Profile feature to support intent-based analysis.

• Simplification of user experience of creating analysis runs.
• Users can create a profile with desired checks and reuse it later at any time with a single Click/API

• Users with target credentials can create the profile and Operator can run them for diagnostics.
• Using API users can integrate diagnostics into ticketing system.

• Integrated Analysis and Scheduling Experience for users

• Users can schedule any analysis runs as part of running the workflow.

• Extend scheduling for checks beyond just health checks (VCG, VMSA,..).
• Notification Feature extended for all Analysis Runs (Previously only scheduled runs had this feature)

• Support to perform VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x and above Pre-Upgrade Assessment & Health checks.

• Integration with the Assessment engine users can upgrade the assessment of VMware Cloud Foundation.
• VCF Verify/Check tool has been formally integrated with the option to run from SHD UI

• Diagnostics support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x, 5.x

• Connect and collect logs feature is enabled for VMware Cloud Foundation

• VMware Certified SHD remote plugin for vSphere Client

• SHD remote plugin is supported from vSphere 8.0 U1 from vSphere Client.
• Users can auto-register the remote plugin as part of appliance deployment.

• Extended API support

• Fully documented using OpenAPI 3.0 specifications.
• All day 1 and day 2 operations except Profile Management are supported from API.

• VMware Horizon features support for Direct Connect and Analyze

• Support to perform connect and analysis for VMware Horizon 7 & 8 versions.
• Support to perform Log bundle analysis for Horizon 7 & 8 versions.

• VMware SD-WAN offline analysis support (In Tech-Preview)

• Support to perform Log bundle analysis for VMware SD-WAN product.

• Diagnostics support for vSphere 8.0 & 8.0U1
• Thumbprint-based SSL Verification for all trusted targets.

• Plugins:

• ~220 New Plugins added taking an overall count of ~1970

• vSphere – 74 New Signatures

• 48 Diagnostics (Trending issues for 8.0 U1)
• 5 Security Advisory
• 21 Private

• vSAN – 7 New Signatures.
• VMware Cloud Foundation - 46 New Signatures.

• 16 Security Scan checks
• 21 Diagnostics
• 9 NSX Check

• SD-WAN– 102 New Signatures.

• Partners & Community forum request

• Support to force reset the shd-admin user password. (Community request)
• Administrator/Operator Role bases Access (Dell’s request)

• This release introduces Administrator and Operator Roles for extending administrative privileges to other users.
• Previous releases had only one hardcoded Administrator user account (shd-admin).

• Platform Development

• Category Management Feature

• Definition-based checks and categories.
• This feature enabled dynamic UI generation with fewer or no changes required for the UI in case new categories/checks are introduced.

• Introduction of Feature Switch

• We can selectively include/exclude available features (dev time/build time decision).
• This will help us to produce builds for different release targets/products or market segments.

• External API Providers and Collectors have been restructured to be modular with less coding required.
• Code cleanup as part of Public API support
• HTPP Request Handling is streamlined with better error handling and integrated Cookie support.

• Task/Workflow Management refined.

Release notes :
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/services/rn/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagn...
Documentation Page:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/services/Skyline-Health-Diagnostics/GUI...
Download Page:
https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=SKYLINE_HD_VSPHERE