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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Training

V8

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8

This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.

Training at a glance

Level

Intermediate

Duration

5 Days

Experience

2 years: System Admin

Average Salary

$145,259

Labs

Yes

Level

Intermediate

Duration

5 Days

Experience

2 years: System Admin

Average Salary

$145,259

Labs

Yes

Training Details

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
  • Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
  • Use command-line interfaces, log files, and the vSphere Client to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
  • Explain the purpose of common vSphere log files
  • Identify networking issues based on reported symptoms
  • Validate and troubleshoot the reported networking issue
  • Identify the root cause of networking issue
  • Implement the appropriate resolution to recover from networking problems
  • Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology
  • identify the root cause of storage failure
  • Apply the appropriate resolution to resolve storage failure problems
  • Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios
  • Analyze possible vSphere cluster failure causes
  • Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
  • Identify and validate VMware ESXiTM host and VMware vCenter® problems
  • Analyze failure scenarios of ESXi host and vCenter problems
  • Select the correct resolution for the failure of ESXi host and vCenter problems
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
  • Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

 

Introduction to Troubleshooting

  • Define the scope of troubleshooting
  • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
  • Apply troubleshooting methodology to diagnose faults and make troubleshooting efficient

 

Troubleshooting Tools

  • Identify the utilities and tools used to run commands
  • Identify how to access the vSphere ESXi shell
  • Run commands to view, configure, and manage vSphere components
  • Use Standalone ESXCLI for troubleshooting
  • Run ESXCLI commands from the Standalone ESXCLI tool
  • Use Data Center CLI commands for troubleshooting
  • Run commands to view, configure, and manage your vSphere components
  • Identify the best tool to use for CLI troubleshooting
  • Locate important log files
  • Identify how to use log files in troubleshooting
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
  • Explain how VMware Skyline works at a high-level
  • Identify the types of health information provided by Skyline™ Health
  • Identify uses for VMware Skyline™ Advisor
  • Describe the support bundle REST API
  • Use the support bundle REST API

 

Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

  • Analyze and troubleshoot standard switch problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot virtual machine connectivity problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot management network problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot distributed switch problems

 

Troubleshooting Storage

  • Recognize components in the vSphere storage architecture
  • Identify the possible causes of problems in the various types of datastores
  • Analyze the common storage connectivity and configuration problems and discuss the possible causes
  • Resolve the storage connectivity problems, correct misconfigurations, and restore LUN visibility
  • Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of storage problems
  • Use ESXi and Linux commands to troubleshoot storage problems
  • Investigate ESXi storage issues
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine snapshots
  • Troubleshoot storage performance problems
  • Recognize how multipathing works
  • Identify the common causes of missing paths
  • Resolve the missing path problems between hosts and storage devices

 

Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters

  • Identify and troubleshoot potential vSphere HA problems
  • Analyze and solve vSphere potential vMotion problems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot potential vSphere DRS problems

 

Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

  • Describe virtual machine files
  • Identify, analyze, and solve virtual machine snapshot problems
  • Discuss virtual machine files and disk content IDs
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on problems
  • Identify possible causes and troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
  • Diagnose and recover from VMware Tools™ installation failures

 

Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi

  • Analyze and resolve vCenter service problems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter database problems
  • Use vCenter appliance shell and the Bash shell to identify and solve problems
  • Identify and troubleshoot ESXi host problems
  • System architects and system administrators

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