VMWare vSphere 5.x Troubleshooting course

Overview

This course is designed to provide system administrators with additional skills to assist them in the troubleshooting of a VMware environment.  It is very heavily practical, with labs accounting for 70% of the course.  There are over 30 different labs. The course has been updated to vSphere version 5, which includes the operating system and utilities, such as VMa.

Course Objectives

• Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on vSphere
• Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on vSphere hosts
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on vSphere
• Use vSphere 5 console troubleshooting options
• Create and use a network sniffer to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
• Use the vSphere Client and command-line tools to troubleshoot VMware VMotion™, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems

Audience

System administrators, system engineers, help desk, those in short who need the skills, knowledge and practical abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of a VMware environment.

Prerequisites

This is not suitable for someone new to VMware.  Delegates should have attended a Fast-Track course or the Install, Configure and Manage course.

Course Contents (4 days)