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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

DRS-enabled storage


You can automate the management of all of your datastore cluster resources using the Storage DRS. In a datastore cluster, a Storage DRS generates recommendations for migrating and placing the disks of your virtual machines to different datastores based on the availability of I/O resources and free space. DRS-enabled storage automates the load balancing of space across different datastores of a cluster. It also does the load balancing of I/O load of a virtual machine's disks and places their disks accordingly to satisfy their I/O needs.

Failed DRS recommendations

When automated, Storage DRS tries to implement the recommendations for low space or I/O load balancing; but sometimes it doesn't work and fails to apply recommendations. There could be multiple issues causing this problem that does not allow Storage DRS to apply the recommendations. You can check all the alarms that have been triggered recently. Sometimes, there is no space available in datastores to accommodate...