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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

By : Zeeshan Munir
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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

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By: Zeeshan Munir
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Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. The Methodology of Problem Solving
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1. The Methodology of Problem Solving
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Troubleshooting techniques
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Configuring the vSphere management agent
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VMware vMA features
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PowerCLI
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A comprehensive reference of log files
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Understanding the hardware health of vSphere hosts
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Miscellaneous tools
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Summary
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2. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Host and VM Performance
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2. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Host and VM Performance
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Tools for performance monitoring
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Analyzing esxtop results
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Memory statistics
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Network metrics
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Storage metrics
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vCenter performance charts
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Configuring logging level for performance
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Virtual machine troubleshooting
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Summary
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3. Troubleshooting Clusters
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3. Troubleshooting Clusters
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An overview of cluster information
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Cluster performance monitoring
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vSphere HA
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Failing heartbeat datastores
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Detaching datastores with vMA
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Detaching a datastore using vSphere PowerCLI
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vCenter server rejects specific datastores
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DRS-enabled storage
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Insufficient resources and vSphere HA failover
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I/O control troubleshooting
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vSphere Fault Tolerance for virtual machines
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Summary
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4. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Networking
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4. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Networking
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Log files
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Understanding the virtual network creation process
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Network troubleshooting commands
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Troubleshooting VLANs
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Verifying physical trunks and VLAN configuration
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Verifying VLAN configuration from CLI
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Troubleshooting VMkernel interfaces
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Verifying configuration from DCUI
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Troubleshooting with port mirroring
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Summary
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5. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Storage
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5. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Storage
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Storage adapters
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Storage log files
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Multipathing and PSA troubleshooting
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LUN and claim rules
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Identifying storage devices and LUNs
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Troubleshooting paths
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Multipath policy selection from the vSphere client
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LUN troubleshooting tips
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Storage module troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting iSCSI-related issues
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Troubleshooting NFS issues
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Troubleshooting VMFS issues
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SAN display problems
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SAN performance troubleshooting
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Summary
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6. Advanced Troubleshooting of vCenter Server and vSphere Hosts
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6. Advanced Troubleshooting of vCenter Server and vSphere Hosts
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vCenter managed hosts
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Setting up vCenter Server the statistics intervals from vSphere Web Client
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vSphere SSL certificates
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Replacing machine certificates
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Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi
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Regenerating certificates
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vCenter Server database
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vSphere HA agent troubleshooting
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The HA agent initialization error
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HA agent host failed state
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Network partitioned or network isolated errors
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Commonly known auto deploy problems
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Summary
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A. Learning PowerGUI Basics
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A. Learning PowerGUI Basics
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Using the VMware Community PowerPack
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Summary
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B. Installing VMware vRealize Operations Manager
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B. Installing VMware vRealize Operations Manager
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Summary
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C. Power CLI - A Basic Reference
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C. Power CLI - A Basic Reference
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Chapter 5. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Storage

The VMware vSphere host hides the physical storage layer from end users, and instead, provides a logical storage layer to interact. Virtual machines use virtual disks, which reside on a VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore. Virtual disks are also stored in raw disk datastores or NFS-based datastores. Virtual machines use virtual SCSI controllers, including VMware Paravirtual, BusLogic Parallel, LSI Logic Parallel, and LSI Logic SAS to access the virtual disks in datastores. We will discuss the following topics in this chapter:

  • Storage log files
  • Multipathing and Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) troubleshooting
  • Logical unit numbers (LUNs) and claim rules
  • Storage module troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting iSCSI datastores
  • iSCSI error correction
  • Troubleshooting NFS datastores
  • Troubleshooting VMFS datastores
  • SAN display problems
  • SAN performance troubleshooting
  • Snapshot and resignaturing
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