VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (v7)
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 7.x environment. This 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.
Retail Price: $4,625.00
Next Date: 01/13/2025
Course Days: 5
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Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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
Who Can Benefit
- System administrators
- System integrators
Prerequisites
Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended. This course requires completion of one of the following prerequisites:
- 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
Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
| Course Dates | Course Times (EST) | Delivery Mode | GTR | |
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| 1/13/2025 - 1/17/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 2/10/2025 - 2/14/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 3/10/2025 - 3/14/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 4/21/2025 - 4/25/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 5/19/2025 - 5/23/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 6/16/2025 - 6/20/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 7/14/2025 - 7/18/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 8/11/2025 - 8/15/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 9/15/2025 - 9/19/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 10/20/2025 - 10/24/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 11/17/2025 - 11/21/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 12/8/2025 - 12/12/2025 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll |