VMware vSphere: Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
This five-day, 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 methods and skills that use management command-line interfaces (CLIs) and VMware vSphere® ClientTM. This workshop focuses on investigating and resolving problems, analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes, and configuring specific key vSphere features.
Product Alignment • ESXi 6.7 • vCenter Server 6.7 |
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| 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 |
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| Intended Audience: | • Senior system administrators, experienced system administrators • Senior system integrators, experienced system integrators |
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| Prerequisites: | This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites: • VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] (with two years production experience) • VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7] • VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7] • VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.7] • Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended, as is completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7]. |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 |
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