Chapter 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring

This chapter will discuss troubleshooting and monitoring techniques in an SDDC environment. First, it is important to note that the SDDC itself is a complex environment, which hides this complexity from the user. This is done through a user portal with yet easy-to-request services. Although this is perfect for the end user, it can become quickly very difficult to troubleshoot for operators or administrators. An SDDC is more than just the VMware components such as the portal, the hypervisors, and the virtual networking. It is also using the orchestrator for third-party integration to external tools. A powerful and yet easy-to-consume monitoring needs to be in place for all of these processes and triggers.

If a service deployment is failing, it is important to quickly identify the root cause to fix it. The best case is that it can be found with the error message the deployment generates. The worst case requires a monitoring system that is...