In this chapter, you learned what the VMware vSphere Management Assistant is, and how to set up and configure with vSphere Server. We also saw how the VMware administrator is able to enable the ESXi Shell during troubleshooting. Then we saw how to use VMware commands (such as esxcli
, vifcfg
, and vmware-cmd
) to manage the vSphere host and virtual machine in vMA or TSM. You also learned how the VMware administrator gathers the vSphere Server log and vCenter Server log.
In the next chapter, we will look at the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) and see how to monitor a virtual machine's performance.