VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V8]

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Course Overview

Over 70% of VMware environments experience recurring issues due to misconfiguration or insufficient troubleshooting skills. Are your teams prepared to respond quickly?

This course equips IT professionals with the skills to confidently identify, diagnose, and resolve issues in the vSphere 8 environment. Through hands-on labs and expert-led instruction, you'll gain fluency in troubleshooting using the vSphere Client, CLI tools, and log analysis—ensuring you can handle real-world storage, network, and cluster failures with confidence.

Who Should Attend

System architects and system administrators

Course Objectives

    By the end of this course, you’ll be able to troubleshoot and resolve critical issues in vSphere 8 environments using VMware tools and structured methods.

    • Apply structured troubleshooting techniques to identify and resolve vSphere issues
    • Diagnose and fix network, storage, and virtual machine problems
    • Analyze log files and use command-line tools for advanced diagnostics
    • Troubleshoot vSphere HA, DRS, vMotion, and cluster-level failures
    • Restore functionality in common vCenter Server and ESXi failure scenarios

Course Outline

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to Troubleshooting

  • Scope and methodology of troubleshooting
  • Applying logical diagnostics

Troubleshooting Tools

  • Using ESXi Shell, vSphere CLI, and log files
  • Overview of VMware Skyline and Advisor

Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

  • Resolving VM connectivity and network switch issues
  • Distributed switch and management network problems

Troubleshooting Storage

  • Identifying and solving storage connectivity and configuration problems
  • Snapshot issues and storage performance bottlenecks

Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters

  • Diagnosing vMotion, HA, and DRS problems

Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

  • Power-on failures, snapshot corruption, and connection state issues
  • VMware Tools failures

Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi

  • Solving vCenter Server service/database issues
  • Identifying and recovering from ESXi host failures

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Mountain time

This is a 5-day class

Price: $4,625.00

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