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Please note: VCP-DCV certification and exams will be discontinued on December 15, 2025. No new exam registrations will be accepted after October 31, 2025! An overview of all current VMware by Broadcom certifications can be found here.
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This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities you need to perform competent troubleshooting in the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course will improve your skills and competencies in using the command line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and resolve issues.
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Course Contents
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- Course Introduction
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.
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Target Group
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- System Architects
- System Administrators
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Knowledge Prerequisites
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This course requires the completion of one of the following courses:
- VCP-DCV certification
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure
The course material assumes that you can complete the following tasks without help 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 are unable to complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8].
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Course Objective
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Certifications:
| 1 Course Introduction |
| • Introductions and course logistics |
| • Course objectives |
| 2 Introduction to Troubleshooting |
| • Define the scope of troubleshooting |
| • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems |
| • Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency |
| 3 Troubleshooting Tools |
| • Use command-line tools (such as Linux commands, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI) to identify and troubleshoot |
| vSphere problems |
| • Identify important vSphere log files and interpret the log file contents |
| 4 Troubleshooting Virtual Networking |
| • Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems |
| • Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them |
| • Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations |
| 5 Troubleshooting Storage |
| • Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and |
| configuration problems |
| • Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot problems |
| • Identify multipathing-related problems, including common causes of permanent device loss (PDL) and all |
| paths down (APD) events and resolve these problems |
| 6 Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters |
| • Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA |
| • Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion® configuration and operational problems |
| • Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems |
| 7 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines |
| • Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems |
| • Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems |
| • Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations |
| 8 Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi |
| • Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services |
| • Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems |
| • Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems |
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Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
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Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
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Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
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Tailor-made courses
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You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.-
Please note: VCP-DCV certification and exams will be discontinued on December 15, 2025. No new exam registrations will be accepted after October 31, 2025! An overview of all current VMware by Broadcom certifications can be found here.
-
This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities you need to perform competent troubleshooting in the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course will improve your skills and competencies in using the command line interface, VMware vSphere® Client™, log files, and other tools to analyze and resolve issues.
-
Course Contents
-
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Troubleshooting Virtual Networking
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi
You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.
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Target Group
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- System Architects
- System Administrators
-
Knowledge Prerequisites
-
This course requires the completion of one of the following courses:
- VCP-DCV certification
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure
The course material assumes that you can complete the following tasks without help 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 are unable to complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8].
-
Course Objective
-
Certifications:
| 1 Course Introduction |
| • Introductions and course logistics |
| • Course objectives |
| 2 Introduction to Troubleshooting |
| • Define the scope of troubleshooting |
| • Use a structured approach to solve configuration and operational problems |
| • Apply a troubleshooting methodology to logically diagnose faults and improve troubleshooting efficiency |
| 3 Troubleshooting Tools |
| • Use command-line tools (such as Linux commands, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI) to identify and troubleshoot |
| vSphere problems |
| • Identify important vSphere log files and interpret the log file contents |
| 4 Troubleshooting Virtual Networking |
| • Analyze and resolve standard switch and distributed switch problems |
| • Analyze virtual machine connectivity problems and fix them |
| • Examine common management network connectivity problems and restore configurations |
| 5 Troubleshooting Storage |
| • Troubleshoot and resolve storage (iSCSI, NFS, and VMware vSphere® VMFS) connectivity and |
| configuration problems |
| • Analyze and resolve common VM snapshot problems |
| • Identify multipathing-related problems, including common causes of permanent device loss (PDL) and all |
| paths down (APD) events and resolve these problems |
| 6 Troubleshooting vSphere Clusters |
| • Identify and recover from problems related to vSphere HA |
| • Analyze and resolve VMware vSphere® vMotion® configuration and operational problems |
| • Analyze and resolve common VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ problems |
| 7 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines |
| • Identify possible causes and resolve virtual machine power-on problems |
| • Troubleshoot virtual machine connection state problems |
| • Resolve problems seen during VMware Tools™ installations |
| 8 Troubleshooting vCenter Server and ESXi |
| • Analyze and fix problems with vCenter Server services |
| • Analyze and fix vCenter Server database problems |
| • Examine ESXi host and vCenter Server failure scenarios and resolve the problems |
-
Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
-
Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
-
Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
-
Tailor-made courses
-
You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.
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