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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 Master your virtual environment with this ultimate vSphere guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119512943
Length 848 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryan Johnson Ryan Johnson
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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G. Blair Fritz G. Blair Fritz
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Nick Marshall Nick Marshall
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Author
4. About the Contributors
5. Foreword
6. Introduction 7. Chapter 1: Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7 8. Chapter 2: Planning and Installing VMware ESXi 9. Chapter 3: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server 10. Chapter 4: vSphere Update Manager and the vCenter Support Tools 11. Chapter 5: Creating and Configuring a vSphere Network 12. Chapter 6: Creating and Configuring Storage Devices 13. Chapter 7: Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity 14. Chapter 8: Securing VMware vSphere 15. Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 16. Chapter 10: Using Templates and vApps 17. Chapter 11: Managing Resource Allocation 18. Chapter 12: Balancing Resource Utilization 19. Chapter 13: Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance 20. Chapter 14: Automating VMware vSphere 21. Index
22. End User License Agreement
Appendix A: The Bottom Line

vCenter Support Tools

In addition to VUM, vCenter includes a few other useful support tools. Let's go through them before we finish up this chapter and move out of vCenter specifics and on to networking.

ESXi Dump Collector

The ESXi Dump Collector is a centralized service that can receive and store memory dumps from ESXi servers should they crash unexpectedly. These memory dumps occur when an ESXi host suffers what is known as a purple screen of death (PSOD), analogous to the Windows blue screen of death (BSOD) or a Linux kernel panic. The kernel grabs the contents of memory and dumps them to nonvolatile disk storage before the server reboots. This allows VMware support services to investigate the cause of the PSOD and hopefully recommend an action to prevent the issue from occurring again.

Ordinarily, these dumps are sent to the host's local storage in a separate partition not normally mounted to the running filesystem, known as vmkDiagnostic. If the host has been deployed...

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