VMware vSphere Troubleshooting [V8] Course

Price
$4,625.00 USD

Duration
5 Days

 

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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.

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

Who Should Attend?

System architects and system administrators
  • Top-rated instructors: Our crew of subject matter experts have an average instructor rating of 4.8 out of 5 across thousands of reviews.
  • Authorized content: We maintain more than 35 Authorized Training Partnerships with the top players in tech, ensuring your course materials contain the most relevant and up-to date information.
  • Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
  • Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
  • Private Group Training: Let our world-class instructors deliver exclusive training courses just for your employees. Our private group training is designed to promote your team’s shared growth and skill development.
  • Tailored Training Solutions: Our subject matter experts can customize the class to specifically address the unique goals of your team.

What is VMware vSphere Troubleshooting V8 training?

This hands-on training course teaches you how to methodically diagnose and resolve issues across VMware vSphere 8 environments. You'll work with real troubleshooting tools—including the vSphere Client, ESXi Shell, command-line interfaces, and log files—to resolve problems with networking, storage, clusters, virtual machines, and vCenter components.

What are the benefits of this training?

This course deepens your VMware troubleshooting expertise, helping you resolve critical infrastructure issues faster and more confidently. These advanced skills can open doors to senior-level system administrator and engineer roles, improve your organization’s uptime and performance, and prepare you for advanced VMware certifications—all of which can lead to higher compensation and greater career mobility.

Will this course help me diagnose performance and connectivity problems?

Yes. You’ll learn how to investigate performance slowdowns and networking outages by using diagnostic tools, performance charts, CLI commands, and log analysis. This includes resolving issues like misconfigured switches, dropped VM connections, and vMotion bottlenecks.

Will this course help me troubleshoot vSphere HA and vMotion failures?

Absolutely. You’ll analyze HA event logs, examine DRS configurations, and troubleshoot vMotion failures using both graphical tools and command-line utilities. This enables you to isolate root causes like resource contention, misconfigured hosts, or network interruptions—and apply lasting fixes.

Is VMware vSphere Troubleshooting V8 part of a certification pathway?

Yes. While the course itself does not include an exam, it supports preparation for advanced VMware certifications such as the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy (VCAP-DCV Deploy). Completing this course builds the troubleshooting expertise expected at the advanced level.

Course Prerequisites

  • VCP-DCV certification
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure
  • The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install vCenter Server
  • Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
  • Create and modify a standard switch
  • Create and modify a distributed switch
  • Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
  • Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
  • Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
  • Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM cluster
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere HA cluster
  • Basic knowledge of command line tools like ESXCLI, DCLI, and PowerCLI
  • If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course instead.

Agenda

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
 

Upcoming Class Dates and Times

Jul 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
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