vSphere 8: Troubleshooting a vSphere Implementation
This course will teach you the knowledge and skills to troubleshoot a variety of problems in vSphere 8 with efficiency and confidence.
What you'll learn
VMware vSphere is a powerful and advanced virtualization platform for the modern data center, but it isn't without its complexities and potential trouble. With so many enterprises virtualizing their most critical applications with vSphere, as a vSphere administrator, you must be prepared. In this course, vSphere 8: Troubleshooting a vSphere Implementation, you'll learn how to efficiently troubleshoot any potential problems in vSphere when they occur. First, you'll explore how to troubleshoot problems with ESXi and vCenter installation. Next, you'll discover how to use VMware's knowledgebase (KB) system to fix problems with the vSphere environment, like storage and networking. Finally, you'll learn to work with vSphere to find misconfigurations and fix issues. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary skills and knowledge to efficiently troubleshoot a variety of problems in vSphere 8 with confidence.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Verify Network Configurations 7m
- Troubleshoot Common Virtual Machine Issues 6m
- Verify a VM Is Configured with the Correct Network Resources 4m
- Troubleshoot Virtual Switch and Port Group Configuration Issues 7m
- Troubleshoot Physical Network Adapter Configuration Issues 4m
- What This Module Covered 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Troubleshoot Virtual Machine Resource Contention Issues 9m
- Identify Fault Tolerant Network Latency Issues 6m
- Troubleshoot VMware Tools Installation Issues 5m
- Identify and Troubleshoot VM Various States 4m
- Identify Virtual Machine Constraints 2m
- Identify and Troubleshoot the Root Cause of a Storage Issue 4m
- Identify Common Virtual Machine Boot Disk Errors 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Monitor ESXi System Health 3m
- Monitor Status of the vCenter Server Service 4m
- Monitor Status of ESXi Management Agents 5m
- Determine ESXi Host Stability Issues and Gather Diagnostics Information 5m
- Locate and Analyze vCenter Server and ESXi Logs 5m
- Perform Basic Maintenance of a vCenter Server Database 5m
- Determine the Appropriate CLI Command 5m
- What This Module Covered 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Verify Network and Storage Configuration 7m
- Recognize a Connectivity Issue Caused by a VLAN/PVLAN 3m
- Identify Network and Storage Resource Contention and Latency Issues 6m
- Recognize the Impact of NIOC/SIOC Configurations 4m
- Troubleshoot VMFS Metadata Consistency 4m
- Monitor Networking and Storage Resources Using vRealize Operations 3m
- What This Module Covered 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Monitor CPU and Memory Usage 5m
- Compare and Contrast Overview and Advanced Charts 9m
- Monitor Performance through esxtop 11m
- Describe and Differentiate Critical CPU Metrics 4m
- Describe and Differentiate Critical Memory Metrics 5m
- Describe and Differentiate Critical Storage Metrics 4m
- Describe and Differentiate Critical Network Metrics 2m
- Monitor vSAN Performance in vCenter 6m
- Troubleshoot VM Performance with Aria Operations 6m
- What This Module Covered 3m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more