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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

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 (16 chapters)
VMware vSphere Troubleshooting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Installing VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Power CLI - A Basic Reference
Index

Using the VMware Community PowerPack


Let's have a quick overview of our recently added VMware Community PowerPack. Perform the following steps:

  1. Expand the VMware icon on the left pane.

  2. Click on Managed Hosts and then click on Add managed host... on the Actions pane.

  3. The Add managed host… Paramenters window will open, as shown in the following figure. Enter your vCenter Server host name or IP address.

  4. Enter the user name that you use to log in to your vCenter Server in ConnectionAccount and click on OK.

  5. The host will be added to Managed Hosts. You can right click on it or you can choose Connect... from the Action pane to connect it:

  6. Once prompted, enter the details in the Password field for your account, as shown in the figure that follows:

  7. Click on Session on the left pane to see the current sessions in the vCenter Server:

  8. Click on Datacenters to see the available datacenters in your vCenter Server. In the same way, you can perform different actions on the object shown in the screenshot that follows, in the connected vSphere infrastructure: