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HH642S - VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
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Instructor Led |
Overview: |
| This 4-day, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware® ESX™/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter™ Server systems. This course is 25 percent lecture and 75 percent hands-on labs. |
Target Audience: |
| System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere deployments. |
Pre-requisites: |
| This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the completion of one of the following: |
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (HH627S), VMware vSphere: Manage Availability (HH641S), VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability (HH639S)
- Completion of vSphere: Fast Track (HH629S)Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server
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At Course Completion: |
| After completing this course, students will be able to: |
- Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX
- Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX and ESXi hosts
- Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
- Create and use a network sniffer to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
- Use the vSphere Client and command-line tools to troubleshoot VMware VMotion™, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems
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| ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods |
- Install and use vMA
- Learn common VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands and syntax
- Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
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| ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files |
- View ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server log files
- Configure a centralized ESX/ESXi log host
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| Network Troubleshooting |
- Identify and configure vNetwork components
- Configure and use a network traffic sniffer
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| Management Troubleshooting |
- Troubleshoot vSphere management components
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| Storage Troubleshooting |
- View, configure, and diagnose storage access problems
- Configure iSCSI authentication and digests
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| VMotion Troubleshooting |
- Troubleshoot VMotion and Storage VMotion errors
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| VMware HA Cluster Troubleshooting |
- Troubleshoot errors with slot calculations, admission control, and host monitoring
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| DRS Cluster Troubleshooting |
- Troubleshoot errors with shares, pools, and limits
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| Virtual Machine Troubleshooting |
- Review power-on requirements
- Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures
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| Graduation Lab |
- Complete a final multihour, multiproblem troubleshooting exercise
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| #Note# |
| VMware courses delivered by Hewlett-Packard Australia. HP is a global VMware authorized training center (VATC), using VMware-certified instructors and course materials. |
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