Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation
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Issue/Introduction
Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation is designed to help you analyze and troubleshoot the most common capabilities of VCF components. This feature detects common issues in your environment and provides them as findings for you to diagnose and fix issues. It provides relevant information in self help flows for vCenter capabilities (e.g vMotion) to help you diagnose problems
Current capabilities covered in Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation include VMotion, Snapshots, and Workload Provisioning.
Resolution
The following KBs are helpful in troubleshooting the different capabilities outlined in the dashboards.
VMotion
- Understanding and troubleshooting vMotion
- Troubleshooting vMotion network connectivity issues
- Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command
- Troubleshooting vMotion fails with network errors
Snapshots
- Troubleshooting issues when creating or committing snapshots in VMware ESXi/ESX
- Best practices for using VMware snapshots in the vSphere environment
- Consolidating/Committing snapshots in VMware ESXi
- How to calculate snapshot consolidation
- VMware virtual machine file lock on VMFS datastore
Workload Provisioning
- Cannot deploy a virtual machine from a template because the template VMDK file is locked
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi hosts
- Investigating virtual disk file locks on vSAN
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