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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V8]

SS Course: 64823

Course Overview

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This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere Client, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.                                                                  

Scheduled Classes

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04/13/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)
05/18/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led (click to enroll)

What You'll Learn

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Describe troubleshooting principles and procedures
  • Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
  • Use the vSphere Client, the command line, and log files to configure, diagnose, and correct problems in vSphere
  • Explain the key vSphere log files from troubleshooting perspective
  • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  • Identify the networking issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
  • Identify the storage issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
  • Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
  • Trouble virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connectivity problems
  • By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Outline

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Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • 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
  • Identify the utilities and tools used to run commands.
  • Identify how to use log files in troubleshooting.
  • Explain how VMware Skyline works at a high level.
  • Describe the support bundle REST API.
  • Use the support bundle REST API.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Recognize components in the vSphere storage architecture.
  • Recognize how multipathing works.
  • Identify the common causes of missing paths.
  • Resolve missing path problems between hosts and storage devices.
  • Identify the possible causes of problems in the various types of datastores.
  • Analyze common storage connectivity and configuration problems and discuss the possible causes.
  • Resolve 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.
  • Identify and troubleshoot vSphere HA problems
  • Analyze and solve vSphere vMotion problems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot common vSphere DRS problems
  • 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.
  • Analyze and resolve vCenter service problems.
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot vCenter database problems.
  • Use the vCenter Appliance shell and the Bash shell to identify and solve problems.
  • Identify and troubleshoot ESXi host problems.

Prerequisites

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VMware vSphere: Fast Track
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure
  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install vCenter
  • Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
  • Create and modify a standard switch
  • Create and modify a distributed switch
  • Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
  • This course requires completion of one the following courses:The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

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    Who Should Attend

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    System architects and system administrators

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