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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

Multipath policy selection from the vSphere client


You can also identify multipath policy selection settings from the vSphere client. For the sake of completeness, you should be able to obtain multipath information from the vSphere client. For that perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your vSphere client.

  2. Click on the vSphere host named crimv3esx001.linxsol.com and go to the Configuration tab.

  3. Click on Storage in the Hardware pane on the left.

  4. Select the datastore you want to display the multipath settings in and right-click on it.

  5. Choose Properties from the menu to open the Properties window of the datastore.

  6. From Extents, select a device and click on Manage Paths. You can see the available paths for the datastore.

You can change the multipath information here to the policy of your choice.

Using vMA to change a path state

A path state can be changed from esxcli and from a VMware vMA appliance. This procedure will not work if an active I/O operation is going on. If the command fails, wait for some...