VMware vSphere Troubleshooting: Intro to vSphere Troubleshooting
Part 1 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series introduces troubleshooting topics.
What you'll learn
Part 1 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series introduces troubleshooting topics. The goal of this course is to enhance your skills to enable you to troubleshoot vSphere. This course will show you how to troubleshoot vSphere using log files, how to prevent downtime with your HA cluster, ways to deal with broken vNetwork Distributed Switches, and how to quickly get vSphere back up and running. If you are a middle-to-upper level enterprise network administrator, and/or have taken our VMware vSphere Training course or have done hands-on work with vSphere, you’ll benefit from the advanced troubleshooting techniques presented in our vSphere Troubleshooting Training course.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Why You Need vMA 1m
- What is Contained in the vMA VM 1m
- vMA Requirements 2m
- Downloading, Installing, and Logging into vMA 10m
- Using vMA vCLI Commands to Manage ESX/ESXi 5m
- Using vi-fastpass to Manage ESX/ESXi 5m
- Using Session Files to Manage ESX/ESXi 6m
- Consolidating ESX/ESXi Log Files with vMA 5m
- Rebooting and Shutting Down the vMA Server 3m
- Resetting a Lost vMA Password 3m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Why You Need Centralized Logging 2m
- Logging Consolidation Tips 2m
- Changing the Location of ESXi Log Files 5m
- Configuring vMA as a Log Server for vSphere 11m
- Configuring a Syslog Server for vSphere 2m
- Steps to Configure vMA as a Syslog Receiver 5m
- Steps to Configure ESX Host to Send Syslogs to vMA 8m
- Steps to Configure ESXi Host to Send Syslogs to vMA 4m
- Using Kiwi Syslog Server 3m
- What We Covered 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more