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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Troubleshooting vSphere components

Now that we have learned a lot about CLI or GUI commands and tools, we can start with specific TRBL aspects.

TRBL can be focused on different infrastructural parts, such as the ESXi hosts or the vCenter Server, the network, storage, or can be directly performed at the VM level. Depending on the different issues, it could be better to adopt a bottom-up or top-down approach.

Troubleshooting the vCenter Server

TRBL problems and errors with vCenter Server and ESXi or clusters can be straightforward. One possible issue could be only that some services are no longer working.

The first action to perform during the troubleshooting of a problem that has occurred in the vCenter Server is to restart...