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VMware Skyline

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What is VMware Skyline?

VMware Skyline is a suite of products that provide proactive findings and recommendations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize Operations and Horizon that aim to provide proactive intelligence that helps users avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests.

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VMware Skyline is great!

Incentivized
Chris Hein
Systems Engineer in Information Technology at CIH (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps us keep track of vulnerabilities in our VMware environment. We use it for all of our VMware environments.

Pros

  • Scans for vulnerabilities.
  • Gives advice on how to resolve issues.
  • Upgrades automatically.

Cons

  • Sometimes the recommendations do not make sense.
  • Sometimes the advice is general, but not for us.

Most Important Features

  • Free
  • Automatic

Return on Investment

  • Tons of ROI since it's free.

Other Software Used

Docuware Cloud, DocuSign

Usability

VMware Skyline - free yet priceless

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware Skyline is an overview of your current VMware environment showing details ranging from EOL drivers and products to suggestions on improving security.

Pros

  • VMware Skyline showed me my end of life cisco drivers.
  • Skyline listed unsupported VMtools and listed the VMs using such versions.
  • Skyline listed out-of-date hardware compatibility versions and the VMs matching such versions.

Cons

  • Skyline users are assigned by the administrators. It would be nice if users could request accounts so approval is all that is needed.

Most Important Features

  • Skyline scans for security related issues.
  • Skyline points out out of date hardware drivers.

Return on Investment

  • VMware Skyline has no cost except for the small footprint the appliance VM uses.
  • Zero cap cost, unlimited returns. WIN WIN!

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) and vRealize Orchestrator

Other Software Used

Hyper-V, Nutanix AOS, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

A Good Product to Monitor Your Network

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used to collect and monitor data from customers to resolve business problems. Its proactive self-service support technology is being used to serve customer requests. It also automatically and securely collects, aggregates and analyzes customer specific product usage data to identify potential issues and improve time-to-resolution. Which would ultimately result in to quick response for customer requests.

Pros

  • Easy setup
  • Stable
  • Data collection

Cons

  • collection of product usage pattern
  • workload visibility on customers machine is none

Most Important Features

  • Data collection
  • Monitoring capacity
  • Solve problems

Return on Investment

  • Weekly reports helps gain long term statistics
  • service requests can be easily resolved

Alternatives Considered

Auvik

Other Software Used

New Relic