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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

Chapter 4. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Networking

Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere networking, which includes troubleshooting vSphere virtual distributed switches, vSphere standard virtual switches, vLANs, uplinks, DNS, and routing, is one of the core issues a seasoned system engineer has to deal with on a daily basis. This chapter will cover all these topics and give you hands-on step-by-step instructions to manage and monitor your network resources. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to troubleshoot networking issues and apply networking best practices to your vSphere infrastructure. You will learn about the log files relevant to vSphere networking and basic vSphere network switching concepts in the first section. In the second section, you will learn network-troubleshooting commands and apply the troubleshooting commands from vCLI, PowerCLI, and the VMware vMA appliance to troubleshoot vSphere networking. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Networking...