VMware vSphere 4: Troubleshooting (VSTS)

System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting

This course is part of the following certification(s):

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration (VCAP4-DCA)

This is an advanced course. 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

Or

• Completion of vSphere: Fast Track.

Or

• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

Delegates Will Learn How to

• 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 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.