VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

The books is intended for mid-level System Engineers and System Integrators who want to learn VMware power tools to troubleshoot and manage the vSphere infrastructure. Good knowledge level and understanding of virtualization is expected.

Gain expertise in troubleshooting most common issues to implement vSphere environments with ease

About This Book

Plan, analyze, and design effective solutions for your vSphere environment
Troubleshoot problems related to vSphere performance
Familiarize yourself with the advanced troubleshooting conceptsand become an xpert level administrator

What You Will Learn

Configure vSphere management assistant and troubleshooting tools
Use troubleshooting tools to monitor performance and troubleshoot different issues
Learn how to troubleshoot High Availability and other commonly known problems with clusters such as insufficient resources, failing heartbeats
Use Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to verify configuration
Diagnose storage issues including iSCSI, NFS and VMFS problems
Manage vSphere Network Virtual and Distributed Switches, Trunks, VLANS
Monitor and shape network traffic, configure routes and DNS
Quickly resolve common day-to-day problems by analysing logs of VMware vSphere hosts and VMware vCenter Server
Debug and resolve commonly known vSphere Cluster problems

In Detail

VMware vSphere is the leading server virtualization platform with consistent management for virtual data centers. It enhances troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve day to day problems in your VMware vSphere infrastructure environment.

This book will provide you practical hands-on knowledge of using different performance monitoring and troubleshooting tools to manage and troubleshoot the vSphere infrastructure.

It begins by introducing systematic approach for troubleshooting different problems and show casing the troubleshooting techniques. You will be able to use the troubleshooting tools to monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues related to Hosts and Virtual Machines. Moving on, you will troubleshoot High Availability, storage I/O control problems, virtual LANS, and iSCSI, NFS, VMFS issues.

By the end of this book, you will be able to analyze and solve advanced issues related to vShpere environment such as vcenter certificates, database problems, and different failed state errors.

Style and approach

A step-by-step guide full of real world scenarios that will enhance advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere environment. Basic concepts of vSphere and the most common vSphere infrastructure problems are explained with practical solutions to resolve it.