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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

Karel Novak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

6. Advanced Network Management

7. Advanced Storage Management

8. Advanced VM and Resource Management

9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

14. Data and Workloads Protection

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...