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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting (V8)

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€ 3.690,-
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Booking number
36629
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Online
4 dates
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This five-day training course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities you need to perform competent troubleshooting in the VMware vSphere® 8 environment.
Contents

This course improves your skills and competencies in using the command line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files and other tools to analyze and solve problems.

1st Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

 

2. introduction to troubleshooting

  • Define the scope of troubleshooting
  • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems
  • Apply troubleshooting methodology to diagnose faults and make troubleshooting efficient

 

3. troubleshooting tools

  • Identify the utilities and tools used to run commands
  • Identify how to access the vSphere ESXi shell
  • Run commands to view, configure, and manage vSphere components
  • Use Standalone ESXCLI for troubleshooting
  • Run ESXCLI commands from the Standalone ESXCLI tool
  • Use Data Center CLI commands for troubleshooting
  • Run commands to view, configure, and manage your vSphere components
  • Identify the best tool to use for CLI troubleshooting
  • Locate important log files
  • Identify how to use log files in troubleshooting
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline™
  • Explain how VMware Skyline works at a high-level
  • Identify the types of health information provided by Skyline™ Health
  • Identify uses for VMware Skyline™ Advisor
  • Describe the support bundle REST API
  • Use the support bundle REST API

 

4. troubleshooting virtual networking

  • Analyze and troubleshoot standard switch problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot virtual machine connectivity problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot management network problems
  • Analyze and troubleshoot distributed switch problems

 

5. troubleshooting storage

  • Recognize components in the vSphere storage architecture
  • Identify the possible causes of problems in the various types of datastores
  • Analyze the common storage connectivity and configuration problems and discuss the possible causes
  • Resolve the storage connectivity problems, correct misconfigurations, and restore LUN visibility
  • Analyze log file entries to identify the root cause of storage problems
  • Use ESXi and Linux commands to troubleshoot storage problems
  • Investigate ESXi storage issues
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine snapshots
  • Troubleshoot storage performance problems
  • Recognize how multipathing works
  • Identify the common causes of missing paths
  • Resolve the missing path problems between hosts and storage devices

 

6. troubleshooting vSphere Clusters

  • Identify and troubleshoot potential vSphere HA problems
  • Analyze and solve vSphere potential vMotion problems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot potential vSphere DRS problems

 

7. troubleshooting virtual machines

  • Describe virtual machine files
  • Identify, analyze, and solve virtual machine snapshot problems
  • Discuss virtual machine files and disk content IDs
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on problems
  • Identify possible causes and troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems
  • Diagnose and recover from VMware Tools™ installation failures

 

8. troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi

  • Analyze and resolve vCenter service problems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter database problems
  • Use vCenter appliance shell and the Bash shell to identify and solve problems
  • Identify and troubleshoot ESXi host problems

 

Requirements: 

This course requires the completion of one of the following courses or certifications:

  • VCP-DCV certification
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
  • VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure

 

The course material assumes that you can perform the following tasks without assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

  • Installing and configuring ESXi
  • Install vCenter Server
  • Create objects in the vCenter Server, such as data centers and folders
  • Create and edit a standard switch
  • Create and edit a distributed switch
  • Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage
  • Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
  • Change the hardware of a virtual machine
  • Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
  • Have basic knowledge of command line tools such as ESXCLI, DCLI and PowerCLI
Your benefit
  • Describe principles and procedures for troubleshooting
  • Use the vSphere Client, command line, and log files to configure, diagnose, and troubleshoot issues in vSphere
  • Explain the most important vSphere log files from a troubleshooting perspective
  • Describe the benefits and features of VMware Skyline
  • Identify network issues by investigating reported symptoms and resolving these issues
  • Identify storage issues by investigating reported symptoms and resolving these issues
  • Troubleshooting error scenarios for vSphere clusters and analyzing possible causes
  • Diagnose common issues with VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA) and provide appropriate solutions
  • Troubleshoot virtual machine issues, including migration issues, snapshot issues and connectivity issues
  • Identifying problems with VMware ESXi™ hosts and VMware vCenter Server®, analyzing error scenarios and providing appropriate solutions
  • Troubleshooting performance issues with vSphere components
trainers
Edvard Filistovic
Daniel Chroszcz
Methods

This course consists of training training and is led by a trainer who supervises the participants live. Theory and practice are taught with live demonstrations and practical exercises. The video conferencing software Zoom is used.

Certification

This course can serve as preparation for the following examinations:

  • VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deploy (VCAP-DCV Design)
  • VCAP - Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2024
Recommended for
  • System architects
  • administrators administrators
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3.11.2025
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4.5.2026
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Call us on +49 761 595 33900 or write to us at service@haufe-akademie.de or use the contact form.

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