Course Overview
This lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter™ Server systems.
Course Outline
- Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX
- Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX and ESXi hosts
- Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
- 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 This is an advanced course. Required prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:
- Completion of the following three courses: – VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – VMware vSphere: Manage Availability – VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability
- Completion of VMware vSphere: Fast Track.
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server
Objective
Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional.
Prerequisites
This is an advanced course. Required prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:
Completion of the following three courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Manage Availability
- VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability
Completion of VMware vSphere: Fast Track.
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server