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Introduction
This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere Client, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
Audience profile
System architects and system administrators.
Pre-requisites
This course requires completion of the one of the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Install vCenter Server
- Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
- Create and modify a standard switch
- Create and modify a distributed switch
- Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
- Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
- Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource SchedulerTM cluster
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
- Basic knowledge of command line tools like ESXCLI, DCLI, and PowerCLI
- If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course instead.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe troubleshooting principles and procedures
- Use the vSphere Client, the command line, and log files to configure, diagnose, and correct problems in vSphere
- Explain the key vSphere log files from troubleshooting perspective
- Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
- Identify the networking issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
- Identify the storage issues by examining the reported symptoms, and troubleshoot the reported problems
- Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
- Diagnose common VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) problems and provide solutions
- Trouble virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connectivity problems
- Identify VMware ESXi host and VMware vCenter Server problems, analyze failure scenarios, and find resolutions
- Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components
Course content
Session 1: Introduction to Troubleshooting | |
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Session 2: Troubleshooting Tools | |
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Session 3: Troubleshooting Virtual Networking | |
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Session 4: Troubleshooting Storage | |
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Session 5: Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters | |
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Session 6: Troubleshooting Virtual Machines | |
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Session 7: Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi | |
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Associated certifications and exam
The 2V0-21.23 VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam validates a candidate’s ability to install, configure, manage, operate and maintain a vSphere 8.x infrastructure.
Associated Certification:
- VCP-DCV 2024
The VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2024 (VCP-DCV 2024) certification validates an individual’s knowledge and skills with VMware vSphere solutions, including virtual machines, networking, and storage. Job-roles associated with this certification include virtualization administrators, system engineers, and consultants.
VMware Overview
VMware has been at the forefront with innovative software solutions that enable a software-defined enterprise. To take advantage, organizations need IT professionals who possess the cloud and virtualization skills required to support these environments.
For nearly 8 years, Torque IT has maintained the status of VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) in Africa. Torque IT is the first South African owned VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) that has locally available skills and resources to offer our clients the broadest range of scheduled authorized VMware training courses, across our national offices, or onsite at any of our customer’s offices across Africa.
Torque IT has been the proud recipient of the prestigious (VATC) of the year award in Africa for four consecutive years. These achievements reflect our commitment to providing you with the highest quality skills development, enablement, training, and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth, breadth, and expertise across Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center & Cloud Management, Network Virtualization and End-User Computing.