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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

SAN display problems


When your vSphere host does not display SANs correctly, you are required to use different troubleshooting techniques to make it work correctly.

It may happen that you are not able to find a port. This could be because of a disconnected network cable. Ensure that your cables are connected correctly; your link is up if you are able to find a green color link light else, replace the cable.

If your routes are not published correctly, you will have connectivity issues among different subnets of your LAN segments. Ensure your storage segment is accessible to the vSphere host's segments and correct routes are published between the subnets. Verify your settings of gateway address, IP address and subnet mask on SAN as well as in your vSphere hosts.

As mentioned previously, for iSCSI-based SANs, make sure the CHAP settings and the secret are correct. For iSCSI and NFS, make sure the access list allows your vSphere hosts to access the storage. For iSCSI and NFS clients' access, also...