This five-day, accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of the VMware vSphere®: Optimize and Scale and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting courses. This Fast Track course includes topics from each of these advanced courses to equip experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge and skills to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an expert level.
Attendance of this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
Upon completing this course, the student will be able to meet these objectives:
Introduce troubleshooting principles and procedures
Use command-line interfaces, log files, and VMware vSphere® Client™ to diagnose and resolve problems in the vSphere environment
Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
Explain the purpose of key vSphere log files
Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for VMware ESXi™ hosts
Optimize the performance in the vSphere environment, including VMware vCenter Server®
Identify networking problems based on reported symptoms, validate, and troubleshoot the reported problem, identify the root cause, and implement the appropriate resolution
Analyze storage failure scenarios using a logical troubleshooting methodology, identify the root cause, and apply the appropriate resolution to resolve the problem
Troubleshoot vSphere cluster failure scenarios and analyze possible causes
Diagnose common VMware vSphere® High Availability problems and provide solutions
Identify and validate ESXi host and vCenter Server problems, analyze failure scenarios, and select the correct resolution
Troubleshoot virtual machine problems, including migration problems, snapshot problems, and connection problems
Troubleshoot performance problems with vSphere components