HH642S VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting

    

Summary:
This 4-day, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware® ESX™/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter™ Server systems. This course is 25 percent lecture and 75 percent hands-on labs.

Duration:
4

Audience:
System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere deployments.

Topics:

• Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX
• Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX and ESXi hosts
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
• Create and use a network sniffer to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
• Use the vSphere Client and command-line tools to troubleshoot VMware VMotion™, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems

Prerequisites:
This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (HH627S), VMware vSphere: Manage Availability (HH641S), VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability (HH639S)
Completion of vSphere: Fast Track (HH629S)
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

Last Update: May 20, 2013