In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMwareSite Recovery Manager.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s most advanced hybrid cloud platform. It provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security and cloud management to run enterprise apps—traditional or containerized —in private or public environments.
Current VMware Cloud Foundation Technology Curriculum:
● VMware Cloud Foundation: Management and Operations [V4.0]
Duration: 3 days.
Level of difficulty: Professional.
Target audience: Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for implementing and managing VMware Cloud Foundation.
Prerequisites: This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage;
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale.
This three-day course includes instruction on the capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation™ to manage and operate hybrid and cloud infrastructures, which includes customization and management. The course explains the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation and explains licensing, certificates, and storage and network management. The course also covers workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting. In general, you learn how to use and configure VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1
Target audience: Experienced solution architects, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing and deploying VMware Cloud Foundation.
Prerequisites: This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere and VMware NSX-T Data Center deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7];
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7];
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0].
This two-day course introduces the concepts and architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation to prepare students for a successful deployment. This course explains how to design and size your infrastructure for the management components and for workload domains in preparing for VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. This course provides instruction on planning and designing the physical network, a key preparatory step for VMware Cloud Foundation. This course describes how to plan for, and execute, the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process and explains how to image VMware ESXi hosts for use in VMware Cloud Foundation using the VMware Imaging Appliance. Live labs provide hands-on experience to help understand key course objectives.
Brief Summary
In this short article, we got acquainted with the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware Cloud Foundation.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we will talk about training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware Integrated OpenStack.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN 6.7 and 7.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Site Recovery Manager
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution for planning, testing and restoring virtual machines from a protected, primary site to a backup recovery site.
Current Site Recovery Manager Technology Curriculum only one:
● VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]
The course gives experienced VMware vSphere administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.2. This course also shows how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.
Brief Summary
In this short article, we got acquainted with the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMwareSite Recovery Manager.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we will talk about training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud:VMwareCloud Foundation.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSphere 6.7 and 7.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN 6.7 and 7.
vSAN 6.7 and 7
VMware Virtual SAN (or vSAN) is a distributed storage concept that is fully integrated with VMware vSphere at the ESXi cluster level. vSAN is a software storage system that allows you to abstract from the “iron” data warehouse and work with resource pools without worrying about where the virtual machine data is located.
Prerequisites: Storage administration experience on block or file storage devices. Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course.
In this course, students focus on deploying and managing a software-defined storage solution using VMware vSAN 6.7. The course provides knowledge of how vSAN, an important component of the VMware data center software, functions. Students receive practical experience working with vSAN concepts and perform hands-on laboratory exercises.
Prerequisites: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. Storage administration experience with block or file storage devices.
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. In this course, you are taught the many considerations that the vSAN configuration has on the initial planning of the vSAN datastore. You also manually configure a vSAN cluster.
Target Audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators.
Prerequisites: Completion of the following courses is required:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v7] or equivalent knowledge
VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy [v7].
In this three-day course, you learn about managing and operating VMware vSAN 7. This course focuses on building the required skills for common Day-2 vSAN administrator tasks such as, vSAN node management, cluster maintenance, security operations and advanced vSAN cluster operations. You also gain practical experience through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Prerequisites: Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage;
VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy;
VMware vSAN: Management and Operations.
In this two-day course, you focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot VMware vSAN 7 implementations. You gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Brief Summary
In this article, we got acquainted with the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN 6.7 and 7.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we will talk about training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMwareSite Recovery Manager.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
Hello to all readers of the blog about IT Architecture and Learning!
Last year we published a series of articles “VMware Practice. Year 2020”. VMware recently released an updated catalog of Hands-On Labs.
So, we’re starting a new series of articles called “VMware Practice. Season 2021-2022.”, in which we will consider all new Hands-On Lab of VMware and we will update the information on previous versions of Labs.
To begin with, let us briefly recall last year’s topics in this area.
Practice
Recently in the series of articles “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we talked about the training programs for authorized learning VMware 2021-2022 season. Today we will talk about one of the options for gaining practical skills in working with VMware technologies.
During the authorized study, students have access to the laboratory environment in which they perform tasks according to the course scenario. This is enough to gain basic technology skills. However, after the end of the course, this access is terminated, and to consolidate skills, such a laboratory must be constantly available, and training in a productive environment is a very bad idea.
There are several main options: to create a permanent laboratory or even a home one mini data center, or take advantage of a special resource from VMware – Hands-on Labs.
What is HOL (Hands-on Labs)?
So what is a HOL (Hands-on Labs)?
VMware Hands-on Labs provide a quick and easy way to access VMware products and solutions, testing use cases and learning about the latest features with no installation required. There are no special hardware or licenses needed. VMware Hands-on Labs delivers a real, virtualized infrastructure in the cloud using VMware managed infrastructure including vCloud Foundation, vRealize Operations, VMware Learning Platform, Wavefront and more. Best of all, they are provided at no charge and you only need a modern browser to run them. All labs are created by product experts, documented and supported by the VMware Hands-on Labs team and community.
Hands-on Labs types
In general, there are three types of Hands-on Labs:
Lightning Labs;
Comprehensive Labs;
Odyssey Game Labs.
Lightning Labs – The quickest and easiest way to experience VMware products in 30-minutes or less. Lightning Labs help you experience and evaluate VMware products in small segments of time. “Bite-sized” labs allow you to learn about core product features quickly!
Comprehensive Labs – Dive deep into VMware products features and capabilities with full guided labs. Experience the full range of VMware products and learn about new features. Up and running on any browser in minutes and 100% free. No installation, licenses, or special hardware required. Relevant content available and updated year round.
Odyssey Game Labs – Test your knowledge and skills of VMware products by completing tasks. Where will you rank on the leaderboard? VMware Odyssey are short tasks that challenge your knowledge of VMware products and solutions. Go against the clock and players online to top the leaderboard! Get instant feedback on your progress. Sharpen your skills and showcase your technical expertise.
Brief Summary
So, from this short publication you learned about VMware Hands-on Labs, about the types of labs. Since this resource is absolutely free, and only a modern browser is required for access, I advise you to bookmark the address of the resource “VMware Hands-on Labs” and quickly register and read a fairly large catalog of laboratory work.
And in the next publication, we will talk about the main available laboratory work in the direction of Lightning Labs, for a quick introduction to the technologies of VMware.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
Hello to all readers of the blog about IT Architecture and Learning!
In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we considered a list of areas and specifics of authorized learning VMware.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud.
Direction of training – Multi-Cloud includes training programs on VMware vSphere, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Intergrated OpenStack, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, Automation, Orchestrator, Operations, Log Insight, VMware Cloud Director technologies.
The number of training programs on these products is quite large, so today we will talk only about the direction of the VMware Sphere 6.7 and 7.
VMware vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere is server virtualization software and the heart of a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) that helps you run, manage, connect and secure applications in a shared cloud operating environment.
The main current training programs for vSphere 6.7 technologies are:
Prerequisites: System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server 6.7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 6.7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization..
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 6.7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server 6.7.
Target audience: Senior system administrators, experienced system administrators.
Prerequisites: VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) or VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] (with two years production experience) or VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7] or VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7] or VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.7] or Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server. Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended, as is completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7].
This five-day, intensive hands-on training workshop provides you with advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere 6.7 environment. This workshop is aimed at experienced system administrators and introduces methods and skills that use management command-line interfaces (CLIs) and VMware vSphere Client. This workshop focuses on investigating and resolving problems, analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes, and configuring specific key vSphere features.
Target audience: System administrators and engineers, with beginner to intermediate knowledge of vSphere, who want to gain proficiency in the management of the vSphere lifecycle.
In this five-day workshop, you perform various tasks that a system administrator performs on a regular basis. These tasks include updating and upgrading an existing basic VMware vSphere environment and troubleshooting common problems. You apply the concepts learned during the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] course, while you increase your skill and competence.
VMware vSphere 7
New version of vSphere 7 – the biggest innovation since the launch of ESXi – Unified management technology for Containers and VMs.
The main current training programs for vSphere 7 technologies are:
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of operating systems and Understanding of basic network, storage, and computer hardware concepts.
Certification: Attending this course is recommended to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Technical Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCTA-DCV).
This four-day, hands-on training course is an introduction to VMware vSphere. In this course, you acquire the skills needed to perform Day 2 operational tasks that are typically assigned to the roles of operator or junior administrator in a vSphere environment.
Certification: Attending this course allows candidates who hold a valid VCP-DCV 2019 to upgrade to VCP-DCV 2020 without taking the certification exam.
In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server 7 and VMware ESXi 7. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 7. This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.
Prerequisites: System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course; VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification; System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Certification: The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives.
This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company. These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.
This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided.
Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs.
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 7 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure, and you discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and controls can benefit your organization..
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage. Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended, as is completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV). Attending this course is also recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Deploy.
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere 7.x environment. This workshop increases your skill and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere Client, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day, intensive course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere 7 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 7, which includes VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vCenter Server 7.
● VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale plus Troubleshooting Fast Track [V7]
Duration: 5 days.
Level of difficulty: Advanced.
Target audience: Senior Administrators, Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: Completion of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] course Or Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server. Experience in working at the command prompt is highly recommended.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV).
This five-day, accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of the VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting courses. This Fast Track course includes topics from each of these advanced courses to equip experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge and skills to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an expert level.
Attend a VMware delivered Fast Track course and receive a free VCP Exam voucher to use toward certification.
Target audience: Implementers and Consultants, Architects.
Prerequisites: Completion of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage and VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale courses.
Certification: This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design.
This three-day training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 7 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security, and that uses VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions. Given a case study, you practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.
● VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7]
Duration: 3 days.
Level of difficulty: Intermediate.
Target audience: Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Tanzu.
Prerequisites: Completion of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale AND VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage courses.
During this 3-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere with Tanzu. You learn about how vSphere with Tanzu can be used to orchestrate the delivery of Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in a vSphere environment.
Brief Summary
In this article, we are introduced to training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSphere 6.7 and 7.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we will talk about training programs in Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN directions.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
