vSphere 8: Monitoring a vSphere Implementation
This course teaches you how to monitor many aspects of VMware vSphere including how to use tasks, events, SNMP monitoring, SMTP alerts, and vCenter alarms.
What you'll learn
VMware vSphere is a powerful and advanced enterprise workload platform for the modern data center and public cloud, however it must be properly monitored to ensure high availability and performance for your company’s critical applications. In this course, vSphere 8: Monitoring a vSphere Implementation, you’ll learn how to monitor many aspects of VMware vSphere. First, you’ll explore how to monitor tasks and events, keep track of metrics with performance charts, use SNMP monitoring, and SMTP alerting. Next, you’ll discover how to create and administer vCenter server alarms. Finally, you’ll learn how to install and configure both Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs to monitor and troubleshoot your vSphere’s infrastructure. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to monitor your vSphere infrastructure and prevent problems before they happen.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 3m
- Describe How Tasks and Events Are Viewed in vCenter Server 10m
- Configure SNMP for vCenter Server 3m
- Configure vCenter for Active Directory Identity 5m
- Configure vCenter SMTP Email Settings 4m
- Create, Edit, and Delete a Scheduled Task 5m
- Start, Stop, and Verify vCenter Server Service Status 3m
- Start, Stop, and Verify ESXi Host Agent Status 4m
- Configure vCenter Server Timeout Settings 1m
- Monitor vCenter Sessions 3m
- Determine Host Performance Using Guest Performance Monitor 7m
- Monitoring vSphere to Determine the Root Cause 3m
- What This Module Covered 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Understand Use Cases for Alarms 3m
- List vCenter Server Default Utilization Alarms 5m
- List vCenter Server Default Connectivity Alarms 5m
- List Possible Actions for Utilization and Connectivity Alarms 3m
- Create a vCenter Server Utilization Alarm 6m
- Create a vCenter Server Connectivity Alarm 4m
- Configure Alarm Triggers 6m
- Configure Alarm Actions 4m
- For a Given Alarm, Identify the Affected vSphere Resource 8m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Understanding Aria Operations for Logs 5m
- Deploy Aria Operations for Logs 3m
- Configure Aria Operations for Logs 4m
- Use Aria Operations Logs to Identify and Troubleshoot 6m
- Integrate Content Packs with Aria Operations for Logs 4m
- Create Alerts 5m
- Create Snapshots 2m
- Build a Query 4m
- Create and Edit Charts 2m
- What This Module Covered 3m
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