VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
- Course Code VST
- Duration 5 days
- Version 7
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Course Overview
TopThis five-day, hands-on VMware Troubleshooting training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 7.x environment. This workshop increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
Product Alignment:
- ESXi 7
- vCenter Server 7
Remark: This training is also advised for students who want to be trained on vSphere v6.5 or v6.7.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
Top- System administrators
- System integrators
Course Objectives
TopBy the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
- Practice Linux commands that aid in the troubleshooting process
- Use command-line interfaces, log files, and the vSphere Client to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
- Explain the purpose of key vSphere log files
- Identify networking problems based on reported symptoms, validate and troubleshoot the reported problem, identify the root cause and implement the appropriate resolution
- Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology, identify the root cause, and apply the appropriate resolution to resolve the problem
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
- Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
- Identify and validate VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios, and select the correct resolution
- Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
- Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
Course Content
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1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to Troubleshooting
• Define the scope of troubleshooting
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency
3 Troubleshooting Tools
• Use command-line tools (such as Linux commands, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI) to identify and troubleshoot
vSphere problems
• Identify important vSphere log files and interpret the log file contents
4 Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
• Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems
• Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them
• Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations
5 Troubleshooting Storage
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and
configuration problems
• Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot problems
• Identify multipathing-related problems, including common causes of permanent device loss (PDL) and all
paths down (APD) events and resolve these problems
6 Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
• Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA
• Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion® configuration and operational problems
• Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems
7 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
• Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems
• Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
• Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations
8 Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
• Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
• Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems
• Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to Troubleshooting
• Define the scope of troubleshooting
• Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
• Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency
3 Troubleshooting Tools
• Use command-line tools (such as Linux commands, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI) to identify and troubleshoot
vSphere problems
• Identify important vSphere log files and interpret the log file contents
4 Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
• Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems
• Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them
• Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations
5 Troubleshooting Storage
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and
configuration problems
• Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot problems
• Identify multipathing-related problems, including common causes of permanent device loss (PDL) and all
paths down (APD) events and resolve these problems
6 Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
• Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA
• Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion® configuration and operational problems
• Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems
7 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
• Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems
• Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
• Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations
8 Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
• Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
• Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems
• Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems
Course Prerequisites
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This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSFT)
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSICM)
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSOS)
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended. Recommended prerequisites:
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSFT)
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSICM)
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x] or [V7] - (VSOS)
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended. Recommended prerequisites:
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