Chapter 6. Advanced Troubleshooting of vCenter Server and vSphere Hosts

This last chapter presents a quick walkthrough of some of the common vCenter Server issues. Here, I have covered some of the issues using a vCenter Server 6.0 application. The vCenter statistics that were introduced in the Chapter 1, The Methodology of Problem Solving, have been discussed in detail. The appliance is based on SUSE Linux and is available to download from VMware's website. In the latest VMware vCenter, the way SSL certificates are deployed has changed. It is much easier for system engineers to replace and manage the certificates of vCenter Server and vSphere hosts. This chapter also covers the vSphere HA agent troubleshooting, disabling and re-enabling it, and completely reinstalling it. Finally, we will look into vSphere network isolation problems and auto-deployment problems of vCenter Server. The following topics are covered in this chapter:

• vCenter Server managed hosts
• vCenter Server SSL...