VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting 8.0

About this Course:

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^TM, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.

Course 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 ESXi^TM 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

Audience:

• System administrators
• System integrators

Prerequisites:

• This course requires completion of one the following courses:

  • VCP-DCV certification
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure

  The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install vCenter Server
  • Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
  • Create and modify a standard switch
  • Create and modify a distributed switch
  • Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
  • Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
  • Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
  • Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere^® vMotion^® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion^®
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere^® Distributed Resource Scheduler^TM cluster
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
  • Basic knowledge of command line tools like ESXCLI, DCLI, and PowerCLI

  If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course instead.