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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8 VSTS8

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.

Product Alignment:
- VMware ESXi 8.0
- VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Who should attend:
- System architects and system administrators

Certifications:
This course is part of the following Certifications:
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8 VSTS8 Objectives

  • 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

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  • VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8 VSTS8 Outline

    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 logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency

    Troubleshooting Tools:

    - Discuss the various methods to run commands
    - Discuss the various ways to access ESXi Shell
    - Use commands to view, configure, and manage your vSphere components
    - Use the vSphere CLI
    - Use ESXCLI commands from the vSphere CLI
    - Use Data Center CLI commands
    - Identify the best tool for command-line interface troubleshooting
    - Identify important log files for troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
    - Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware SkylineTM
    - Explain how VMware Skyline works
    - Describe VMware SkylineTM Health
    - Describe VMware Skyline AdvisorTM

    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:

    - Discuss the vSphere storage architecture
    - Identify the possible causes of problems in the various types of datastores
    - Analyze the common storage connectivity and configuration problems
    - Discuss the possible storage problems causes
    - Solve the storage connectivity problems, correct misconfigurations, and restore LUN visibility
    - Review vSphere storage architecture and functionality necessary to troubleshoot storage problems
    - Use ESXi and Linux commands to troubleshoot storage problems
    - Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of storage problems
    - Investigate ESXi storage issues
    - Troubleshoot VM snapshots
    - Troubleshoot storage performance problems
    - Review multipathing
    - Identify the common causes of missing paths, including PDL and APD conditions
    - Solve the missing path problems between hosts and storage devices

    Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters:

    - Identify and troubleshoot vSphere HA problems
    - Analyze and solve vSphere vMotion problems
    - Diagnose and troubleshoot common vSphere DRS problems

    Troubleshooting Virtual Machines:

    - Discuss virtual machine files and disk content IDs
    - Identify, analyze, and solve virtual machine snapshot problems
    - 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 solve vCenter Server service problems
    - Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter Server database problems
    - Use vCenter Server Appliance shell and the Bash shell to identify and solve problems
    - Identify and troubleshoot ESXi host problems

  • VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8 VSTS8 Course Format

    Live Virtual Course

  • VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting V8 VSTS8 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 SchedulerTM cluster
    - Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
    - Basic knowledge of command line tools like ESXCLI, DCLI, and PowerCLI

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