VMware vSphere 5.5: Troubleshooting

Course details

This hands-on training workshop provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® environment. This workshop also increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface to analyze problems. The workshop is based on VMware® ESXi™ 5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5.

Aims & Objectives

By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in vSphere 5.5 and be able to meet the following objectives:

• Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client, the command-line interface, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
• Configure SSL certificates
• Troubleshoot networking issues
• Troubleshoot storage issues
• Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues
• Troubleshoot ESXi host issues
• Troubleshoot vSphere cluster issues
• Troubleshoot VMware vSphere® vMotion® issues
• Troubleshoot virtual machine issues

Content

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting Tools
• SSL Certificates
• Networking
• Storage
• Cluster Management
• vCenter Server and ESXi
• Virtual Machines

Prerequisites

Required prerequisites include completion of one of the following:

• VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience working with a command-line interface is highly recommended

Who should attend?

• System administrators
• System integrators