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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

Verifying physical trunks and VLAN configuration


The first and most important step to troubleshooting your VLAN problem is to look into the VLAN configuration of your vSphere host. You should always start by verifying it. Let's walk through how to verify the network configuration of the management network and VLAN configuration from the vSphere client:

  1. Open and log in to your vSphere client.

  2. Click on the vSphere host you are trying to troubleshoot.

  3. Click on the Configuration menu and choose Networking and then Properties of the switch you are troubleshooting.

  4. Choose the network you are troubleshooting from the list, and click on Edit.

  5. This will open a new window. Verify the VLAN ID for Management Network.

  6. Match the ID of the VLAN provided by your network administrator.