VMware vSphere Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot vSphere Storage
Part 3 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series focuses on troubleshooting virtual storage.
What you'll learn
Part 3 of 4 in the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting series focuses on troubleshooting virtual storage. 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
- Understanding the VMFS File System 2m
- Reviewing vSphere 4 Storage Maximums 2m
- Storage Terminology - PSA, MPP, NMP, SATP, PSP, and ALUA 9m
- Storage Friendly Names, Identifiers, and Runtime Names 3m
- Identify Log Files Used to Troubleshoot Storage 10m
- Understanding Storage Plug-ins in the vSphere Client 4m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Reviewing esxcfg and vicfg Storage Commands 3m
- Analyzing PSA and Multipathing with esxcli 5m
- Analyzing Storage Paths with esxcfg-mpath 3m
- Configuring Storage Path Masking 3m
- Reviewing VMkernel Storage Modules 3m
- Configuring VMFS Datastores with vmkfstools 4m
- Understanding Snapshots and Resignatures 10m
- Identifying Storage Performance Issues with esxtop and vscsiStats 6m
- What We Covered 1m
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