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VMware vSphere Troubleshooting

You're reading from   VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Gain expertise in troubleshooting most common issues to implement vSphere environments with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783551767
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Methodology of Problem Solving 2. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Host and VM Performance FREE CHAPTER 3. Troubleshooting Clusters 4. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Networking 5. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Storage 6. Advanced Troubleshooting of vCenter Server and vSphere Hosts A. Learning PowerGUI Basics B. Installing VMware vRealize Operations Manager C. Power CLI - A Basic Reference Index

Failing heartbeat datastores


What do humans usually do if they find an irregular or missing heartbeat? They consult with the doctor to cure it. When a vSphere cluster misses a heartbeat, you are required to troubleshoot it before it leads to the disaster of a failing cluster.

A vSphere host's HA management traffic is usually separated from other networks by using a dedicated management network. In a vSphere cluster, the master vSphere host uses the management network to interconnect with a slave vSphere host. The datastore heartbeat is used when a slave vSphere host fails to respond to the calls of its master host. The master host tries to establish communication using a datastore network partition and tries to find the slave host's heart beating in it. When a master vSphere host is unable to find the slave host's heart beating, it declares it to be in a failed state. Then, the master vSphere host tries to find other available slave host that can host the virtual machines of the failed slave...

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