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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

An overview of cluster information


Let's start by looking into the cluster information from the vSphere web client:

  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 Summary tab on the right under Actions.

  6. You can see a vSphere cluster named LinxSol-FatNodes in the following screenshot:

You can see a summary of information about the vSphere cluster named LinxSol-FatNodes. The top column shows the total number of processors and the total number of vMotion migrations. In the same pane, you can see on the right the total CPU, MEMORY, STORAGE and their usage respectively. The Cluster Resources pane shows the number of hosts the cluster is made up of, total processors, CPU resources in GHz, total memory, and the EVC mode.

The vSphere HA pane shows information about vSphere HA protection status, percentage of CPU...