Troubleshooting
Now that we have learned a lot about CLI or GUI commands and tools, we can start with specific troubleshooting aspects.
Troubleshooting can be focused on different infrastructural parts, like the ESXi hosts or the vCenter Server, the network, or the storage part or directly performed at the VM level. Depending on the different issues, it could be better to adopt a bottom-up or top-down approach.
Troubleshooting the vCenter Server
Troubleshooting problems and errors with vCenter Server and ESXi or Cluster can be very easy. Possible issues could be simply that some services are no longer working.
The first action to perform during the troubleshooting of a problem occurred in the vCenter Server, is to restart the service using the service-control
command:
Command> service-control --list vmware-vpostgres(VMware Postgres) vmware-imagebuilder(VMware Image Builder Manager) vmware-cm (VMware Component Manager) vmware-vpxd (VMware vCenter Server) Command> service-control --stop...