Important VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Workshop Information
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Software/Tools
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Requirements
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Who should attend this course
- System administrators
- System integrators
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Exam Information
- This course prepares you for the following certification: VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization
VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Workshop Outline
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Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Identify the effects of a system problem
- Define the scope of troubleshooting
- Use a structured approach
- Discuss the principles of troubleshooting
- Follow a logical troubleshooting procedure
- Examine examples of troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting Tools
- Use command-line tools to identify and troubleshoot problems
- Use vSphere CLI
- Find and interpret important log files
- Use vRealize Log Insight for log aggregation, efficient log search, and problem analysis
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Networking
- Identify the symptoms of network-related problems
- 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
- Identify and prevent potential problems
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Storage
- Troubleshoot storage (iSCSI, NFS, VMware vSphere® VMFS, VMware vSAN™, and VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™) connectivity problems
- Analyze storage-related logs
- Analyze hardware malfunction and software misconfiguration scenarios
- Identify multipathing-related problems, including permanent device loss (PDL) and all paths down (APD)
- Analyze possible causes, recover from faulty conditions, and restore storage visibility
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vSphere Clusters
- Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA
- Analyze and troubleshoot various types of vSphere vMotion problems related to virtual machine migrations
- Discuss and recover from vSphere DRS problems to achieve proper function and balanced resource use
- Examine vSphere cluster failure scenarios and possible solutions
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Virtual Machines
- Analyze and resolve common virtual machine snapshot problems
- Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems
- Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
- Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations
- Examine failure scenarios and provide solutions
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vCenter Server and ESXi
- Describe the vCenter Server and VMware Platform Services Controller™ architecture in vSphere 6.x
- Identify and resolve authentication problems
- Troubleshoot VMware Certificate Authority and certificate problems
- Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services
- Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems
- Identify VMware vCenter Server® High Availability problems
- Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems
VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Workshop FAQs
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How do I earn my VMware certification?
VMware outlines certification requirements,
here.