Duration: 5 Days
This hands-on training workshop provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware® vSphere® environment. This workshop also increases your skill and competence in using the command line to analyze problems. The workshop is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.1 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1. You will spend approximately 75% of class in hands-on labs.
What You Will Learn
- Use the VMware vSphere Web Client, the command line, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
- Troubleshoot SSL certificate issues
- Troubleshoot networking issues
- Troubleshoot storage issues
- Troubleshoot single sign-on issues
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues
- Troubleshoot ESXi host issues
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere High Availability cluster issues
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere vMotion® issues
- Troubleshoot virtual machine issues
Audience
- System administrators
- System integrators
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Using a structured approach to troubleshooting
2. Troubleshooting Tools
- Adding the VMware vSphere Management Assistant to an Active Directory environment
- Using commands to record information about your vSphere configuration
- Locating important log files
- Installing the VMware vSphere Syslog Collector
- Gathering log bundles for technical support
3. SSL Certificates
- Implementing SSL certificates for vCenter Server
- Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi
- Troubleshooting SSL certificate issues
4. Networking
- Troubleshooting standard switch issues
- Troubleshooting virtual machine network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting management network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting distributed switch issues
5. Storage
- Troubleshooting LUN connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting multipathing issues
- Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
6. Cluster Management
- Troubleshooting vSphere high availability issues
- Troubleshooting vSphere vMotion issues
7. vCenter Server and ESXi
- Troubleshooting single sign-on issues
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server service issues
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server database issues
- Troubleshooting ESXi host issues
8. Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting virtual machine state issues
- Troubleshooting VMware Tools™ installation issues
- Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
- Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on issues
Course Labs
You will spend approximately 75% of class in hands-on labs.
