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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

Cluster performance monitoring


You have already seen how to monitor the performance of vSphere hosts using charts. The vSphere web client also provides you charts to monitor the performance of a vSphere cluster. You have also learned the counters in these charts as covered in the previous chapter, so I will briefly summarize it. Follow these steps to monitor vSphere cluster performance:

  1. Log in to your vSphere web client.

  2. Click on vCenter in the left pane.

  3. Now click on Hosts and Clusters from the inventory tree.

  4. Click on the arrow of data center to view all the children under it.

  5. Click on the cluster, and then click on the Monitor tab on the right under Actions.

  6. Now click on the Performance tab under Monitor.

  7. You will see a vSphere chart Overview for cluster named LinxSol-FatNodes with two charts, one for CPU and one for Memory measured in MHz and MB respectively, as seen in the following screenshot. By default, it will show you one-day usage summary of both CPU and Memory.

  8. From the View dropdown...