vCenter Troubleshooting: Resolve some of the most commonly faced vCenter problems with the use of this troubleshooting guide

Chuck Mills

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4 (3 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2015 184 pages 1st Edition

Chuck Mills

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eBook Apr 2015 184 pages 1st Edition

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The book is designed for the competent vCenter administrator or anyone who is responsible for the vSphere environment. It can be used as a guide by vSphere architects and VMware consultants for a successful vSphere solution. You should have good knowledge and an understanding of core elements and applications of the vSphere environment.

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Christine Gaudreau Jun 07, 2015

I thought this was a very practical book that provided a lot of useful tips for the virtualization administrator. As a TAM for VMware, many of the customers I work with run into these issues on a weekly basis. Chapter 1 includes information on vCenter migrations, including the steps required when moving from a legacy vCenter server to a new vCenter server. This is useful during vCenter consolidations or moving hosts during a parallel install for a vCenter upgrade. Chapter 4 is also very informative, providing an overview of monitoring and performance, including looking at disk I/O issues and analyzing disk issues with ESXTOP. Chapter 8 goes into additional support tools, I like the various VMware Labs Flings that are detailed, I think this will help administrators in troubleshooting issues. It also describes the benefits of a very underutilized tool the vCenter Support Assistant, and Chuck Mills helps you through the process of deploying it in your environment.Although this book isn't very long, it is concise and provides a lot of insight into troubleshooting vCenter Issues. Chuck Mills walks you through the steps for troubleshooting common problems and the tools to use to help resolve issues. I definitely recommend the book for virtualization administrators.

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Chris Williams Jul 16, 2015

This book is good insofar as it is a consolidated place to find a number of common issues that you might run into within a VMware environment. If you don't want to spend a lot of time looking at KB articles & the issue that you are experiencing is in this book, it's a good resource. That being said, you should look at the table of contents & determine if any of the items listed are pertinent to your situation/requirements: it plainly details exactly what it will cover so you know exactly what you are getting from this book.I personally found several items very useful both from a troubleshooting perspective and (more valuable) from a thought process towards the act of troubleshooting itself.

Andrea Jul 04, 2015

The purpose of this book is really clear from the title itself (vCenter thoubleshooting) and the authors are valuable guys from the IT world with great skill (including a VCDX).But does it really match and reach the objectives in less than 200 pages?The book does not spend time and pages in describing at high level the vCenter architecture itself (in my opinion should be useful to understand how the different components works together and simply the troubleshooting if some parts does not work properly) and goes directly to the technical and procedural aspects. Some details are provided directly in each chapter.Chapter 1 is dedicated to the vCenter Upgrades and Migrations aspects and it’s well done, considering that include some of the best practices and requirements analysis. Really good the part about databases migration, but limited the part about migration between the installable and the appliance versions (more options and consideration where possible).Chapter 2 is 100% dedicated to the vCenter database and how manage it: really good the part about the vCSA case, limited the part about the installable versions (some maintenance scripts or tasks are missing)Chapter 3 is SSO oriented considering that cover the access, permission and authorization aspects.Chapter 4 is dedicated at the monitoring and how tune vCenter for it.Chapter 5 covers how work with storage, starting from the VM snapshots, file locks, datastore managements and how use vCOPS (not updated to vRealize) to improve monitoring. VASA, VAAI, … are missing.Finally chapter 6 start consider how solve some Not-so-common vCenter issues and this part is really valuable, but too short!Chapter 7 goes back to the management aspects considering the backup and restore aspects.But chapter 8 return to the troubleshooting aspects with additional support methods and tools.And chapter 9 starts with a general troubleshooting method and how to apply to vCenter.Then, unfortunately the book is finished.Pro: it’s not only related to vCenter Server 5.x, but include also some (in my opinion too few) notes on vCenter 6.0.Pro: it covers also the vCSA, but without give idea on how choose this instead of the installable version, or how this choice can impact the troubleshooting aspects.So, does it really match and reach the objectives? From my point of view only in part with a good chapter 6 and some ideas in chapter 9, but with very few pages.But the idea is good and there is the needs of a book that covers this topics.Update the book to the vCenter 6.0, add more details on the vCenter components, reorganized it better (a deployment part is missing, but is really important to avoid possible problems), update also vCOPS to vRealize (and include some other tools from Flings or 3rd part software house), can be a way to go to make the second edition a bestsellers in the IT books.

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