VMware vSphere: Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
This five-day, intensive hands-on training workshop provides advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve proficiency in troubleshooting your VMware vSphere® 6.7 environment. This workshop is intended for experienced system administrators and introduces methods and skills using the command-line management interfaces (CLI) and VMware vSphere® Client™. The workshop focuses on troubleshooting and troubleshooting, analyzing log files to help recognize log file entries that identify root causes, and configuring specific key features of vSphere.
COD: VATSWS67
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
- Senior system administrators, experienced system administrators
- Senior systems engineers, expert systems engineers
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] (with two years of production experience)
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.7]
- Equivalent administrative knowledge and experience with ESXi and vCenter Server.
Experience using a command line interface is highly recommended, as is completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Use the command line interface, log files, and vSphere Client to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in the vSphere environment.
- Practice Linux commands that help in the troubleshooting process.
- Analyze vSphere log files and determine the root cause of specific problems.
- Troubleshoot storage issues and apply the appropriate resolution to those issues.
- Find and fix network problems
- Troubleshoot virtual machines, including migration, snapshot, and connection issues.
- Identify VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server® host problems, analyze failure scenarios or misconfigurations, and resolve them.
- Troubleshoot performance issues with vSphere components and apply mitigations.
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure to improve availability and operational stability.
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Troubleshooting tools
- Identify the tools available for troubleshooting a vSphere environment.
- Explain the purpose of commonly used vSphere log files
- Use the Linux commands that will help you troubleshoot vSphere.
- Use the vim-cmd tool to manage hosts and virtual machines.
3 Troubleshoot storage problems
- Review vSphere storage architecture and features needed for storage troubleshooting.
- Use ESXi and Linux commands for storage troubleshooting.
- Analyze log file entries to identify root cause of storage problems.
- Investigate ESXi disk and storage issues
- Troubleshoot virtual machine snapshots
- Troubleshoot storage performance issues
- Troubleshoot all storage locations and permanent device loss conditions
- Troubleshoot file locking issues on the ESXi host.
- Configuration task: Configuring iSCSI multi-pathing
4 Network troubleshooting
- Review vSphere vswitch architecture and features required for network troubleshooting.
- Use ESXi and Linux commands for network troubleshooting.
- Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of network problems.
- Recovery from a management network failure
- Troubleshooting VMware vSphere® vMotion® migration.
- Setup task: Change network card drivers and options
- Configuration Tasks: Migrating the network from a standard switch to a distributed switch
- Monitor the failover behavior of NIC teaming and load balancing
- Use the command line to isolate and troubleshoot network faults.
5 System troubleshooting
- Review the virtual infrastructure architecture and features required for troubleshooting ESXi and vCenter Server.
- Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of virtual infrastructure issues.
- Use the command line to manage and troubleshoot vSphere virtual infrastructure.
- Analyze the CPU performance of the virtual machine
- Troubleshooting connecting ESXi hosts
- Troubleshoot virtual machine power-up problems
- Troubleshoot vCenter Server connection problems
- Restart the ESXi management agents and VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ services from the command line.
- Performing a file-based backup of the vCenter Server Appliance
- Troubleshoot the solution user certificate
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
