VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
Overview
This five-day, VMWare vSphere troubleshooting workshop hands-on training workshop provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 6.x environment. This VMWare vSphere troubleshooting workshop increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vRealize® Log lnsight™, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
Product Alignment
• ESXi 6.7
• vCenter Server 6.7
By the end of the VMWare vSphere troubleshooting workshop course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Use vSphere Client, the command-line interface, and logs to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
• Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
• Use VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
• Troubleshoot networking problems and recover from these problems
• Analyze storage failure scenarios and resolve the problems
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
• Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
• Troubleshoot problems related to virtual machine migration (VMware vSphere® vMotion®), and improve resource use (VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™)
• Troubleshoot VMware vCenter Server® problems
• Identify VMware ESXi™ host problems, analyze failure scenarios, and correct them
• Troubleshoot faulty virtual machines, including installation problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems.
This course VMWare vSphere troubleshooting workshop requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
• VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.5]
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
Prerequisite
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV), VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.5]
Recommended Course
Full Description
Module 1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2 Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Identify the effects of a system problem
- Define the scope of troubleshooting
- Use a structured approach
- Discuss the principles of troubleshooting
- Follow a logical troubleshooting procedure
- Examine examples of troubleshooting
Module 3: Troubleshooting Tools
- Use command-line tools to identify and troubleshoot problems
- Use vSphere CLI
- Find and interpret important log files
- Use vRealize Log Insight for log aggregation, efficient log search, and problem analysis
Module 4: Networking
- Identify the symptoms of network-related problems
- 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
- Identify and prevent potential problems
Module 5: Storage
- Troubleshoot storage (iSCSI, NFS, VMware vSphere® VMFS, VMware vSAN™, and VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™) connectivity problems
- Analyze storage-related logs
- Analyze hardware malfunction and software misconfiguration scenarios
- Identify multipathing-related problems, including permanent device loss (PDL) and all paths down (APD)
- Analyze possible causes, recover from faulty conditions, and restore storage visibility
Module 6: vSphere Clusters
- Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA
- Analyze and troubleshoot various types of vSphere vMotion problems related to virtual machine migrations
- Discuss and recover from vSphere DRS problems to achieve proper function and balanced resource use
- Examine vSphere cluster failure scenarios and possible solutions
Module 7: Virtual Machines
- Analyze and resolve common virtual machine snapshot problems
- Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems
- Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
- Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations
- Examine failure scenarios and provide solutions
Module 8: vCenter Server and ESXi
- Describe the vCenter Server and VMware Platform Services Controller™ architecture in vSphere 6.x
- Identify and resolve authentication problems
- Troubleshoot VMware Certificate Authority and certificate problems
- Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
- Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems
- Identify VMware vCenter Server® High Availability problems
- Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems
Fees & Schedule
Delivery Mode | Course Duration | Fees |
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Live Virtual Training | 5 Days | Ask for Quote |
Onsite Classroom Training | 5 Days | Ask for Quote |
Customized Training | 5 Days | Ask for Quote |