In the previous article of the series “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware Site 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:
Target audience: System Operator, System Administrator, System Integrator.
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;
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage;
VMware vSAN: Management and Operations.
This five-day course includes instruction on the capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation and how to successfully plan, deploy, manage and operate hybrid and cloud infrastructures, including customization. This course explains the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation and explains licensing, certificates, and storage and network management. This course also covers workload domains, availability, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.
Target audience: System Operator, System Administrator, System Integrator.
Prerequisites: The course material presumes that you have the following skills or experience:
Operational capabilities with VMware vSphere processes and architecture;
Operational capabilities with VMware NSX;
Operational knowledge of vSAN;
or completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage;
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage;
VMware vSAN: Management and Operations.
This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to achieve competence with VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0. This course teaches you how to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation and perform the tasks required for the initial configuration and ongoing operation after deployment.
Brief Summary
In this 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 “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ 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 “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN 7 and 8.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: 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:
● VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]
Duration: 2 days.
Level of difficulty: Intermediate (L300).
Target audience: vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of Site Recovery Manager.
Prerequisites: This class requires completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x]
VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6.x]
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.x]
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.
This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere administrators the knowledge to install, configure and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager™ 8.2. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.
UPDATE:in VMware Learning Course Catalog – July–September 2023 a new course has appeared:
● VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]
Duration: 2 days.
Level of difficulty: Intermediate (L300).
Target audience: vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for the deployment or management of Site Recovery Manager.
Prerequisites: This class requires completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
VMware vSphere: What’s New
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop
Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.
This two-day, hands-on training course gives experienced VMware vSphere administrators the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.6. This course also shows you how to write and test disaster recovery plans that use Site Recovery Manager.
Brief Summary
In this article, we got acquainted with the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware Site Recovery Manager.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ we will talk about training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware Cloud Foundation.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
In the previous article of the series “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSphere 7 and 8.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: VMware vSAN 7 and 8.
vSAN 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.
Target audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN.
Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
During this five-day course, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. 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 will learn these skills through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
Prerequisites: You should have the following understanding or knowledge:
Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
Knowledge of basic storage concepts
Experience using vSphere Client to perform administrative tasks on vSphere clusters.
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 who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN 7.
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.
Target audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to be able to perform initial troubleshooting on their software-defined storage with vSAN.
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.
Target audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN [v7].
Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge.
During this five-day, intensive course, you will gain the knowledge, skills and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. 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 will also focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to troubleshoot vSAN 7 implementations, and gain practical experience with vSAN troubleshooting concepts through the completion of instructor-led activities and hands-on lab exercises.
This course is a combination of the following courses: VMware vSAN: Plan and Deploy, VMware vSAN: Management and Operations, and VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting.
vSAN 8
VMware vSAN 8 – This is the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure software from VMware, which provides uncompromised performance to meet the needs of today’s business, while enabling the data center to be ready for any future challenges.
vSAN 8 introduces vSAN Express Storage Architecture, a new optional storage architecture on the vSAN platform. The vSAN Express storage architecture is the industry’s first single-tier HCI storage solution designed to optimize the use of high-performance storage devices, delivering performance gains. Advanced compression algorithms provide better compression, increasing storage efficiency and contributing to lower total cost of ownership. The vSAN Express Storage Architecture includes scalable native snapshots for enhanced backup and a storage pool architecture that reduces fault domains and improves data availability.
Customers who choose to stay with the original storage architecture will also see the benefits of vSAN 8, including increased performance for demanding workloads and proactive intelligence to avoid compatibility issues before they occur.
Target audience: Storage and virtual infrastructure consultants, solution architects, and administrators who are responsible for production support and administration of VMware vSAN.
Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge
During this five-day course, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to plan and deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. You will learn about managing and operating vSAN. 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 will learn these skills 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 7 and 8.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMwareTraining. Year 2023″ we will talk about training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware Site 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!
In the previous article of the series “Learning VMware. Year 2023” 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 7 and 8.
VMware vSphere 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 7 technologies are:
Target audience: Technical professionals with basic system administration skills and operators responsible for managing virtual machines using VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of operating systems, 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.
Target audience: System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures.
Prerequisites: This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
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.
Target audience: System administrators, System engineers.
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: System administrators, System engineer.
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: Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators.
Prerequisites: Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course OR Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server.
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: System administrators, System integrators.
Prerequisites: VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x] or [V7] OR VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage[V6.x] or [V7] . Experience in working with a command-line interface is highly recommended, as is completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale[V6.x] or [V7].
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.
Level of difficulty: Advanced (L400+), Intermediate (L300).
Target audience: System administrators, System engineers.
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: Intermediate (L300).
Target audience: Experienced system administrators, System engineers, System integrators.
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: Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments.
Prerequisites: Completion of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] and VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale[V7] 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 (L300).
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.
VMware vSphere 8
New version of VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.
The main current training programs for vSphere 8 technologies are:
Target audience: System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.
Prerequisites: This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting.
In this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter 8.0, VMware ESXi 8.0, and VMware vSphere 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.
Target audience: System administrators, System engineers.
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 2023 (VCP-DCV 2023).
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most 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 [V8] course, OR Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter, Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.
Certification: Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2023 (VCP-DCV 2023).
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 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure. You also 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.
Level of difficulty: Advanced (L400+), Intermediate (L300).
Target audience: System administrators, System engineers.
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 2023 (VCP-DCV 2023).
This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere 8 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 8. 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 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter Server 8.
Target audience: System architects and system administrators.
Prerequisites: VCP-DCV certification or VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure.
This five-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere® 8 environment. This course increases your skill level and competence in using the command-line interface, VMware vSphere Client, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.
Brief Summary
In this article, we are introduced to training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vSphere 7 and 8.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Year 2023” 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.
Hello to all readers of the blog about IT Architecture and Learning!
Last years we published a series of articles “VMware Learning.Year 2022″, “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” and “VMware Learning. Year 2020”. VMware recently released an updated “VMware Learning Course Catalog 2022. January–March 2023”.
So, we’re starting a new series of articles called “VMware Training. Year 2023”, in which we will consider all new educational directions of VMware and we will update the information on previous versions of courses.
To begin with, let us recall the features of authorized training.
Authorized Training
Authorized training from the vendor is a pointer to the best way to master this or that technology. Training programs vary in duration, difficulty level, target audience, training format. Given the trends of recent events in the world, training centers will have to reorient themselves mainly to online learning.
The main components of authorized training are branded textbooks, access to the laboratory environment during training, certified instructors. The training programs themselves are focused on official international certification and are based on new versions of products and technologies, reflect the latest advances in virtualization and cloud technologies in VMware. The content of the Authorized trainings of the last generation have a practice-oriented nature and form the professional competencies of the specialist. VMware provides an equally high level of education, regardless of the location of the training center, controls the content of courses, provides educational and methodological and technical support. There is a system and regulations for training and certification of instructors. An independent certification system allows course participants to obtain internationally recognized documents. Different forms of training allow students to choose the most convenient training option.
To understand the list of training programs and directions, you must visit the official resource: VMware Learning and the corresponding section with the areas of study: Learning Paths.
Learning Paths
In VMware Education Catalog now formed five such major product areas:
Multi-Cloud;
Virtual Cloud Network;
Anyware Workspace;
App Modernization;
Security.
Brief Summary
In this article, we have read the list of areas and specifics of authorized training VMware. In the next post, we will learn about Multi-Cloud training programs.
Follow the news until the meeting is on air in a few days. Sincerely, AIRRA.
