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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

Commonly known auto deploy problems


Let's understand the auto deploy procedure in vCenter Server 6. The vCenter Server 6.0 is being adopted by the industry rapidly. Here's a quick walkthrough of the new auto deployment procedure in vCenter Server appliance and troubleshooting its known issues:

  1. Log in to your vSphere web client.

  2. From the left panel, select Administration and click.

  3. In the Administration panel, expand the Deployment tab.

  4. Select System Configuration and choose Services.

  5. Under Services, select the first service: Auto Deploy.

  6. From the Action menu, you can Start, Stop, or Restart the auto deploy service.

  7. You can also choose between the option to start the auto deploy service with the vCenter Server automatically or manually.

  8. To change the Management port of the auto deploy service, click on the Manage tab and then click on the Edit button. By default, the management port is listening on 6502 and the service port is listening on 6501.

  9. You can also change the log level and cache size from...