Goodbye Skyline – see you soon

by user · July 31, 2024

VMware announced on 29th of July that VMware Skyline will reach EOL on October 4th 2024. It was a pleasure having you Skyline!

The statement from VMware

This change is necessary as part of our vision for the future of self-help issue avoidance and diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) as part of VMware by Broadcom.

I’m a Skyline user what’s now?

In preparation for Skyline Advisor’s end of life, Skyline customers only need to shut down their Skyline Collector(s) and revert any changes made in the deployment of VMware Skyline such as removing any firewall rules or any accounts created specifically for the purpose of operating the Skyline service.

What’s next for Skyline?

Skyline is not disappearing. Hock just hates cloud services. Skyline is being integrated into VCF and VVF. Also Aria Operations is getting a new “Diagnostics – Powered by Skyline” category with the latest available release v8.18.

The statement from VMware below

Starting with VCF 5.2 (July 2024), Critical Findings and Self-Help recommendations will be available directly in the product. We are planning to bring many of the other Skyline features into VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation in future release iterations.