Kursbeschreibung
This five-day, hands-on 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
Zielgruppe
- System administrators
- System integrators
Voraussetzung für die Schulung
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track V6.x or V7
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V6.x or V7
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale V6.x or V7
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
- Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended.
Kursinhalte
1. Course Introduction:
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objective
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