VMware vSphere 5.5: Troubleshooting — A 5 day course

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Synopsis

This hands-on training workshop provides delegates 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.

Please note:

Effective 17th of March 2014 all VMware course materials will only be available to delegates in e-courseware format. VMware will email delegates with instructions on how to access their e-book entitlement no less than 48 hours before their course is due to take place.

Objectives

By the end of the event attendees will be able to:

• 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

Suitable For

The course is aimed at system administrators and integrators.

Prerequisites

Delegates attending the five day Troubleshooting course should have completed 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.

Examination

Details of all VMware Certifications will be found at the following links:-

VMware Cloud Certification

VMware Datacenter Virtualisation Certification

VMware End User Certification

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Content

Introduction to Troubleshooting

• Using a structured approach to troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Tools

• Adding the VMware vSphere Management Assistant to an Active Directory environment
• Using commands to record information about your vSphere configuration
• Locating important log files
• Gathering log bundles for technical support

SSL Certificates

• Implementing SSL certificates for vCenter Server
• Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi

Networking

• Troubleshooting standard switch issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting management network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting distributed switch issues

Storage

• Troubleshooting LUN connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting multipathing issues

Cluster Management

• Troubleshooting vSphere cluster issues
• Troubleshooting vSphere vMotion issues

vCenter Server and ESXi

• Troubleshooting vCenter Server issues
• Troubleshooting ESXi host issues

Virtual Machines

• Troubleshooting virtual machine state issues
• Troubleshooting VMware Tools installation issues
• Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on issues