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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to obtain basic information about clusters in order to troubleshoot their common problems. You also learned how this information can be used in advance to prevent any problems from occurring later. Performance monitoring of cluster is a very important ingredient, and it helps you with your business continuity and with managing workloads.

The topic of troubleshooting the heartbeat datastore and DRS storage issues provided a basic insight about some of the very common problems occurring in these areas, how to solve them, and some tips to prevent them from happening. I also covered troubleshooting tips on managing resources, especially when there aren't enough available. Configuring SNMP traps help resource monitoring at one place and you can configure them further to receive severe alerts by texts or email.