VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7)

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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7) Course with Hands-On Exercises (Online, Onsite and Classroom Live)

This five-day, hands-on VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7) course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 7.x environment. This VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting 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.

Product Alignment

  • ESXi 7
  • vCenter Server 7
  • VMware Training Credits: 46 VTC

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7)Duration: 5 days

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  • We can adapt this VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course, we can omit or shorten their discussion
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) Course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course in manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course:

  • System administrators
  • System integrators
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course are:

  • 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
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7) - OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7) course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • 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
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7) - COURSE SYLLABUS

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Training (v7) Course Wrap-Up

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