VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6]

Course details

This hands-on training workshop provides students with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 6 environment.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should gain a solid understanding of the functionality in vSphere 6 and be able to meet the following objectives: Use vSphere Web Client, the command-line interface, and logs to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment Introduce troubleshooting principals and procedures Troubleshoot networking issues and recover from them Analyze storage failure scenarios and resolve the issues Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability issues and provide solutions Troubleshoot problems related to virtual machine migration (VMware vSphere® vMotion®) and improve resource use (VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™) Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues Identify ESXi host issues (analyze failure scenarios and correct them) Troubleshoot faulty virtual machines, including installation issues, snapshot issues, connection issues, and more
Course Outline
1 - Course Introduction
Understand the course objectives Understand the scope and topics covered by the course Become familiar with online technical resources Become familiar with the VMware education system and certification tracks
2 - Introduction to Troubleshooting
Identify the effects of a system problem Define the troubleshooting scope Use a structured approach Understand the troubleshooting principals Follow a logical troubleshooting procedure Troubleshooting examples
3 - Troubleshooting Tools
Use command-line tools to identify and troubleshoot problems Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant Locate and interpret important log files Export relevant log files for technical support Use vRealize Log Insight for log aggregation and problem analysis Use vRealize Log Insight for efficient log search
4 - Networking
Identify the symptoms of network-related problems Analyze and resolve standard and distributed switch issues Analyze virtual machine connectivity issues and restore them Examine common management network connectivity issues and restore configurations Identify and prevent potential problems
5 - Storage
Troubleshoot storage (iSCSI, NFS, VMFS, and VSAN) connectivity problems Analyze hardware malfunction and software misconfiguration scenarios Identify multipathing-related issues, including PDL and APD Analyze possible causes, recover from the faulty conditions, and restore storage visibility
6 - vSphere Clusters
Identify and recover from vSphere HA related issues Analyze and troubleshoot various types of vSphere vMotion issues 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
7 - vCenter Server and ESXi
Understand the vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) architecture in vSphere 6 Identify and resolve authentication issues Troubleshoot VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) and certificate store issues Analyze and fix vCenter Server services issues Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the issues
8 - Virtual Machines
Analyze and resolve common virtual machine snapshot issues Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on issues Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state issues Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations Discuss content library and identify common misconfigurations Examine failure scenarios and provide solutions Updated on 24 October, 2017