EDU-VSTS7

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V7] Training

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.
Course Details

Duration

5 days

Prerequisites

Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended. 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

Target Audience

  • System Administrators
  • System Integrators

Skills Gained

  • Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
  • Practice Linux commands that aid in the troubleshooting process
  • Use command-line interfaces, log files, and the vSphere Client to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
  • Explain the purpose of key vSphere log files
  • Identify networking problems based on reported symptoms, validate and troubleshoot the reported problem, identify the root cause and implement the appropriate resolution
  • Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology, identify the root cause, and apply the appropriate resolution to resolve the problem
  • Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
  • Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
  • Identify and validate VMware ESXi™ host and VMware vCenter Server® problems, analyze failure scenarios, and select the correct resolution
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
  • Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
Course Outline
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Product Alignment
    • ESXi 7
    • vCenter Server 7