Courses detail - VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting


VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting

Who Should Attend

System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere deployments

Prerequisites

This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage HH627S
Completion of vSphere: Fast Track HH629S
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

Course Objectives

This 4-day, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter Server systems. This course is 25 percent lecture and 75 percent hands-on labs.

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX
Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX and ESXi hosts
Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
Create and use a network sniffer to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
Use the vSphere Client and command-line tools to troubleshoot VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems

Course Content

Course Introduction

ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods

Install and use vMA
Learn common VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands and syntax
Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access

ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files

View ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server log files
Configure a centralized ESX/ESXi log host

Network Troubleshooting

Identify and configure vNetwork components
Configure and use a network traffic sniffer

Management Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot vSphere management components

Storage Troubleshooting

View, configure, and diagnose storage access problems
Configure iSCSI authentication and digests

VMotion Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot VMotion and Storage VMotion errors

VMware HA Cluster Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot errors with slot calculations, admission control, and host monitoring

DRS Cluster Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot errors with shares, pools, and limits

Virtual Machine Troubleshooting

Review power-on requirements
Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures

Graduation Lab

Complete a final multihour, multiproblem troubleshooting exercise

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