Course Description
This intensive, hands-on training workshop provides you with advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 6.7 environment. This workshop is aimed at experienced system administrators and introduces
COURSE OBJECTIVES:By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Use the command-line interface, log files, and vSphere Client to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
Practice Linux commands that aid in the troubleshooting process
Analyze vSphere log files and determine the root cause of specific problems
Troubleshoot storage problems and apply the appropriate resolution to these problems
Troubleshoot and resolve networking problems
Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
Identify VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios or misconfigurations, and rectify them
Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components and apply mitigations
Configure and manage the vSphere infrastructure to improve availability and operational stability
Agenda
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Troubleshooting Tools
- Identify the tools available for troubleshooting a vSphere environment
- Explain the purpose of commonly used vSphere log files
- Use Linux commands that will assist you with troubleshooting vSphere
- Use the vim-cmd tool to manage hosts and virtual machines
Storage Troubleshooting
- Review the vSphere storage architecture and functionality necessary to troubleshoot storage problems
- Use ESXi and Linux commands to troubleshoot storage problems
- Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of storage problems
- Investigate ESXi disk and storage issues
- Troubleshoot virtual machine snapshots
- Troubleshoot storage performance problems
- Troubleshoot storage all paths down and permanent device loss conditions
- Troubleshoot problems due to file locking on the ESXi host
- Configuration task: Configure iSCSI multi-pathing
Network Troubleshooting
- Review vSphere virtual switch architecture and functionality necessary to troubleshoot networking problems
- Use ESXi and Linux commands to troubleshoot networking problems
- Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of networking problems
- Recover from a management network failure
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere® vMotion® migration problems
- Configuration task: Modify network card options and drivers
- Configuration task: Migrate networking from a standard switch to a distributed switch
- Monitor the behavior of NIC teaming failover and load balancing
- Use the command line to isolate and resolve networking failures
System Troubleshooting
- Review virtual infrastructure architecture and functionality necessary to troubleshoot ESXi and vCenter Server problems
- Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of virtual infrastructure problems
- Use the command line to manage and troubleshoot the vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Analyze virtual machine CPU performance
- Troubleshoot ESXi host connection problems
- Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server connection problems
- Restart ESXi management agents and VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ services from the command line
- Perform a file-based backup of vCenter Server Appliance
- Resolve Solution User certificate problems
Audience
Senior system administrators, experienced system administrators
Senior system integrators, experienced system integrators