Duration
5 days
Course Overview
This hands-on training workshop provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® environment. This workshop also increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface to analyze problems. The workshop is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in vSphere 5.5 and be able to meet the following objectives:
- Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client, the command-line interface, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
- Configure SSL certificates
- Troubleshoot networking issues
- Troubleshoot storage issues
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues
- Troubleshoot ESXi host issues
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster issues
- Troubleshoot VMware vSphere® vMotion® issues
- Troubleshoot virtual machine issues
Audience
- System administrators
- System integrators
Prerequisites
Required prerequisites include completion of one of the following:
- VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
- Experience working with a command-line interface is highly recommended.
Course Modules
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Using a structured approach to troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Adding the VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to an Active Directory environment
- Using commands to record information about your vSphere configuration
- Locating important log files
- Gathering log bundles for technical support
- SSL Certifications
- Implementing SSL certificates for vCenter Server
- Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi
- Networking
- Troubleshooting standard switch issues
- Troubleshooting virtual machine network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting management network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting distributed switch issues
- Storage
- Troubleshooting LUN connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting multipathing issues
- Cluster Management
- Troubleshooting vSphere cluster issues
- Troubleshooting vSphere vMotion issues
- vCenter Server and ESXI
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server issues
- Troubleshooting ESXi host issues
- Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting virtual machine state issues
- Troubleshooting VMware® Tools™ installation issues
- Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
- Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on issues
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.