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Troubleshooting VMware® vSphere:
Hands-On

Course 2701 • 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To

  • Diagnose and troubleshoot configuration issues in the vSphere environment
  • Exploit built-in graphical and command-line tools for problem analysis and correction
  • Optimize memory and CPU resource allocation to mitigate performance issues
  • Resolve networking and accessibility failures within the storage architecture
  • Restore optimal DRS cluster management by eliminating vMotion errors
  • Enforce resiliency by identifying and correcting HA operational problems

Course Benefits

As organizations increasingly adopt virtualization, they must ensure rapid response time to issues that can affect system availability and cause costly downtime. In this course, you diagnose and correct configuration issues, ensure optimal resource allocation and availability, and apply a series of proven tools and techniques to troubleshoot potential problems.

Who Should Attend

Network and storage analysts, administrators and anyone who wants to troubleshoot the vSphere infrastructure. Experience with vSphere at the level of Course 171, "Deploying VMware vSphere," is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Hands-on exercises provide practical experience troubleshooting VMware vSphere, and include:
  • Utilizing CLI for problem resolution
  • Uncovering performance metrics using esxtop
  • Setting up a syslog system
  • Analyzing memory management mechanisms
  • Troubleshooting vSwitch configuration
  • Isolating and correcting DRS problems
  • Evaluating admission control in clusters
  • Resolving DRS migration failures
  • Mitigating host isolation response in clusters

Course 2701 Content

Introduction

  • How do you know you have a problem
  • The four major steps of troubleshooting
  • Outlining troubleshooting in a virtualized environment

Leveraging Built-In Analysis and Monitoring Tools

Identifying and resolving problems

  • Reviewing the tools of the trade within vSphere
  • Matching the tool to the situation

Monitoring the system with command-line tools

  • Exploiting command-line methods
  • Graphical vs. command-line benefits
  • Comparing vCLI and vMA

Gaining visibility with esxtop

  • Talking directly to ESXi
  • Exploring esxtop organization and views

Investigating System Event Logs

Evaluating problems using log files

  • Accessing individual log files to determine problems
  • Preserving temporary log files

Implementing centralized logging

  • Deploying vilogger as a log collector
  • Applying enterprise class log collection with syslog

Managing CPU and Memory Design

Defining physical CPU impact on vCPU performance

  • Virtualization support within major CPU architectures
  • Allocating vCPU assignments

Evaluating memory

  • Investigating memory pressure effects
  • Optimizing VM memory configurations with ESXi

Analyzing Virtual Networks

Mapping virtual networks

  • Reviewing virtual networking components
  • Connecting virtual to physical networks

Inspecting network traffic

  • Capturing network traffic
  • Protocol analysis techniques

Resolving Storage Access and Performance Issues

Investigating storage architecture

  • Array to LUN to Datastore configuration
  • Reviewing storage connectivity options

Analyzing storage failures

  • Identifying and resolving LUN accessibility problems
  • Correcting non-optimal configurations

Solving vMotion Errors

Appraising vMotion-based resource management

  • vMotion vs. storage vMotion
  • Reviewing live vMotion requirements

Isolating and resolving vMotion failures

  • Repairing configuration-induced errors
  • Isolating non-configuration vMotion problems

Troubleshooting Host Clusters

Cluster-based management

  • Reviewing resource pools
  • Defining admission control

Automating and balancing loads with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  • Leveraging automation settings
  • Implementing VM granularity
  • Defining the internal engine of DRS
  • Tracking DRS actions
  • Analyzing the failure modes of DRS

Capacity and I/O load matching with storage DRS

  • Defining storage DRS methodologies
  • Exploiting storage DRS
  • Identifying storage DRS faults

Resolving VM availability issues with HA

  • Deep diving the HA engine mechanisms
  • HA admission control issues
  • Defining isolation response
  • Integrating DRS and HA functionality

Applying Lessons Learned

  • Integrating different problem isolation and analysis techniques
  • Proof-of-concept problem solving

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Troubleshooting VMware vSphere: Hands-On

Training Dates

Jun 26 - 29New York enroll
Jul 10 - 13Rockville, MD enroll
Jul 17 - 20Toronto enroll
Jul 24 - 27Chicago (Schaumburg) enroll
Aug 14 - 17Reston, VA enroll
Aug 21 - 24Alexandria, VA enroll
Sep 18 - 21New York enroll
Sep 25 - 28Ottawa enroll
Oct 30 - Nov 2Toronto enroll
Nov 13 - 16Rockville, MD enroll
Dec 11 - 14New York enroll
Jan 22 - 25Ottawa enroll

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