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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

Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi


In vSphere 6.0, when you add a vSphere host into the vCenter Server, VMCA assigns a new certificate to the host automatically. If you replace the VMCA-issued certificate with a CA-signed certificate later on as described in previous exercises, you also need to replace the certificates in vSphere hosts. This can be easily done through the vSphere web client:

  1. Log in to your vSphere web client.

  2. Click on the vCenter Server and choose the vSphere host you want to renew the certificate.

  3. Right-click on the vSphere host and from the menu and select Certificates.

  4. Then click on Renew Certificates.

  5. When prompted by the confirmation dialog box of Renew Certificate, select Yes.

  6. Refresh your browser. You will see that the certificate has been re-issued.