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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

Storage adapters


vSphere hosts use different types of storage adapters. iSCSI, Fiber Channel (FC), Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), RAID, and Ethernet adapters are supported by vSphere hosts.

The following table enlists the different types of storage and their compatible adapters (log files that are important to troubleshoot storage issues will be discussed following the table):

Compatible SAN storage for vSphere hosts

Storage Type

Storage Protocols

Data Transfer Type

Interface Type

FC

FC and SCSI

LUN and Block access

FC host bus adapter

FCoE

FCoE and SCSI

LUN and Block access

Converged network adapter (hardware FCoE) and NIC with FCoE (software FCoE)

iSCSI

SCSI and IP

LUN and Block access

iSCSI host bus adapter/iSCSI-enabled hardware NIC and iSCSI-enabled software NIC