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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

vSphere SSL certificates


In vSphere 6.0, you can implement and replace the SSL certificates in a much easier way compared to older versions. VMware has modified the vSphere SSL architecture to simplify the overall SSL certificate management process. Different vSphere components use SSL certificates to authenticate with each other and use an Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) token for authentication. SAML is described as an XML standard that allows secured web domains to the exchange user information, for example, user authentication and authorization data. A reverse HTTP proxy is used to provide certificate information to different vSphere services. vSphere 6.0 has introduced the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) to deploy SSL certificates to vSphere hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-on service, and other services. The vSphere Certificate Manager, which is a command line utility, can be used to replace or add the certificates. You can also replace the certificates manually...