Data center health management helps you identify potential issues before they become major problems, enabling you to take proactive measures to ensure uptime and prevent downtime.
Skyline Health Diagnostics is a self-service diagnostic and health platform that helps you with the following operations:
Diagnose and detect any failures and known issues, and suggest relevant Knowledge Base articles or remediation steps.
Run health checks.
Understand applicability of VMware Security Advisories and related resolutions.
Identify issues which might impact the service availability, update and upgrade of the products.
For information on the benefits of Skyline Health Diagnostics and a comparison with VMware Skyline™ Advisor, see VMware Knowledge Base article 819313.
Using
Skyline Health Diagnostics
with
VMware Cloud Foundation
You deploy VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics as a virtual appliance in the management domain of your
VMware Cloud Foundation
environment, and you connect the appliance to the management network.
Logical Design of
Skyline Health Diagnostics
for
VMware Cloud Foundation
You use the Connect and Analyze, and Upload Log Bundle modes of
Run diagnostics, upgrade-precheck assessment, and health checks for the management and VI workload domains
VMware Cloud Foundation
by directly connecting to SDDC Manager to collect logs.
Manually upload and analyze log bundles.
If an issue with the ESXi hosts or the management components in
VMware Cloud Foundation
occurs, you can download a log bundle and analyze it by using the diagnostics platform. The platform includes many signatures for detecting problems, and when a signature matches the information in the log files, you receive a notification. VMware publishes signatures every two weeks and you can download these signatures in your environment.
View results of the analysis in the form of reports.
