VMM troubleshooting
While VMM covers three different vendors (Microsoft, VMWare, and OpenStack), there is still a basic troubleshooting methodology appropriate to all three. The first step would be to make sure that we have connectivity between the APIC and the target system.
How to do it...
- Firstly, we can make sure that the hypervisor connectivity is working, using the
show <hypervisor> domain
 command,  where the hypervisor is eithervmware
 ormicrosoft
:
apic1# show vmware domain
Faults: Grouped by severity (Critical, Major, Minor, Warning)
Domain Type Encap EPGs Faults
------------------------- ---------- -------- ----- ---------------
ACI-VMWare-vSwitch VMware vDS vlan 0 0,0,0,0
apic1#
- We can drill into the domain by specifying it in the same command:
apic1# show vmware domain name ACI-VMWare-vSwitch
Domain Name : ACI-VMWare-vSwitch
Virtual Switch Mode : VMware Distributed Switch
Switching Encap Mode ...