VMware vSphere Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot vSphere Networking
Part 2 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series focuses on troubleshooting virtual networking.
What you'll learn
Part 2 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series focuses on troubleshooting virtual networking. 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 the Distributed Virtual Switch is So Important 2m
- Comparing the Distributed vSwitch and Standard vSwitch 2m
- How the dvSwitch Works - Control and I/O Plane 7m
- Comparing ESX and ESXi Networking Differences 1m
- Creating a Distributed Virtual Switch 5m
- Connecting VMs to the Distributed Virtual Switch 4m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Troubleshooting the vNetwork with esxtop/resxtop 9m
- Using vicfg and esxcfg Commands to Troubleshoot vNetworks 8m
- esxcfg Commands 7m
- vicfg Commands 10m
- Understanding dvSwitch Sync and Timeouts 8m
- Deleting Old dvSwitch Data 7m
- Restoring a Standard Switch on an ESXi Server 2m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Troubleshooting Service Console and VMkernel Issues 8m
- Restarting vCenter Service (vpxd) 4m
- Restarting hostd and vpxa 2m
- Restarting Management Services in ESXi Host 3m
- Adding a Redundant Management Interface 6m
- Restoring Connectivity to a Host After Management Was Lost 16m
- Troubleshooting DNS and Routing Issues 6m
- Using CDP to Assist in Troubleshooting 4m
- Determining the Root Cause of vNetwork Trouble 3m
- What We Covered 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Packet Capture Concepts 3m
- Packet Capture on Virtual and Physical Network 3m
- Packet Analyzer Options 2m
- Configuring the vNetwork for Packet Capture 6m
- Using Wireshark to Analyze the Virtual Network 1m
- Downloading, Installing and Running Wireshark 7m
- Using tcpdump to Analyze the Virtual Network 5m
- 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