VMware vSphere troubleshooting : gain experience in troubleshooting most common issues in order to implement vSphere environments with ease /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
2015.
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Colección: | Professional expertise distilled.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Methodology of Problem Solving; Troubleshooting techniques; Precise communication; Creating a knowledge base of identified problems and solutions; Obtaining the required knowledge of the problem space; Isolating the problem space; Documenting and keeping track of changes; Troubleshooting with power tools; Configuring the vSphere management agent; Installation; Installation steps; VMware vMA features; Powering-on vMA; AD integration; AD unattended access; vMA web UI.
- Vi-userConfiguring vMA as a syslog server; Creating a logrotate file; The vMA authentication mechanism; Accessing systems from vMA; vMA scripts samples; PowerCLI; Connecting to vCenter Server or an ESX/vSphere host with PowerCLI; Setting up a syslog server using PowerCLI; Setting up a sysLog server manually; A comprehensive reference of log files; vSphere log files
- vSphere host 5.1 and later; Logs from vCenter Server components on vSphere host 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0; vCenter log files; vCenter inventory service log files; vSphere Profile-Driven Storage log files.
- Configuring logs and collecting logsUsing vSphere Client; Using vSphere Web Client; Using the vm-support tool; Running vm-support in a console session on vSphere hosts; Generating logs on stdout; Using vm-support in vMA to collect logs ; Using PowerCLI to collect the log bundle; Collecting log bundles from vCenter Server; Collecting log bundles from a vSphere host; Collecting log bundles from the vSphere log browser; Exporting logs; Understanding the hardware health of vSphere hosts; Miscellaneous tools; Summary; Chapter 2: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Host and VM Performance.
- Tools for performance monitoringUsing esxtop/resxtop; Live resource monitoring
- the interactive mode; Offline performance monitoring
- batch mode; Replaying performance metrics
- replay mode; Using Windows Performance Monitor; Analyzing esxtop results; Understanding CPU statistics; Enabling more esxtop fields; Memory statistics; Memory management in a vSphere host; Memory overcommitment; Memory overhead; Transparent page sharing; Ballooning; Memory compression; Diagnosing memory blockage; Network metrics; Understanding network metrics; Diagnosing network performance; Storage metrics.
- Using vMA and resxtopvCenter performance charts; Creating a chart and configuring metrics; Configuring logging level for performance; Virtual machine troubleshooting; USB-attached virtual machines; Non-responsive USB/CD drives; Unable VM migration with a USB device; Fault-tolerant virtual machines; Incompatible or hosts not available; Summary; Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Clusters; An overview of cluster information; Cluster performance monitoring; vSphere HA; Failing heartbeat datastores; Changing heartbeating datastores; Insufficient heartbeat datastores; Unable to unmount a datastore.