This 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. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional.
Course Contents
Module 1: Course Introduction
Module 2: ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods
Module 3: ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files
Module 4: Network Troubleshooting
Module 5: Management Troubleshooting
Module 6: Storage Troubleshooting
Module 7: vMotion Troubleshooting
Module 8: VMware Infrastructure Troubleshooting
Module 9: vSphere 4 DRS Cluster Troubleshooting
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Target Group
System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere deployments
Knowledge Prerequisites
This is an advanced course. Required prerequisites include the completion of VMware vSphere 4.1: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server
Course Objective
• 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
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