VMware Training in Alexandria

This instructor-led, live training in Alexandria (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to use VMware vCenter to manage complex virtual environments. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and components of VMware vSphere and vCenter Server.
• Install, configure, and manage VMware ESXi and vCenter Server.
• Implement advanced networking and storage configurations.
• Create, manage, and migrate virtual machines.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery in a virtualized environment.
• Automate vSphere tasks and manage lifecycle and upgrades.
• Troubleshoot common issues and apply best practices.

This instructor-led, live training in Alexandria (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level virtualization administrators who wish to use open-source platforms to migrate away from VMware. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure KVM, oVirt, and Proxmox VE.
• Migrate virtual workloads from VMware.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery.
• Optimize performance in open-source virtualization environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Alexandria (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators and developers who wish to install, configure, monitor, and manage Kubernetes-based environments through VMware PKS (formerly named Pivotal Container Service). By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install VMware PKS components and tools.
• Deploy with BOSH and Pivotal Ops Manager.
• Integrate PKS with VMware Harbor capabilities.
• Manage and monitor infrastructures and applications using VMware tools.

This instructor-led, live training in Alexandria (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers and developers who wish to use VMware Tanzu to build, deploy, and orchestrate cloud-native applications in a VSphere environment. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary environment to start managing Kubernetes clusters with VMWare Tanzu.
• Understand the fundamentals of using VMWare portfolio of products to centralize management of clusters and applications.
• Build, run, deploy, and orchestrate containerized applications using the VMWare Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service.
• Learn how to manage and monitor the lifecycle of VMware Tanzu components in VSphere.

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.

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.

Product Alignment
•  VMware ESXi 7.0
•  VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Objectives By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
•  Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
•  Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
•  Install and configure ESXi hosts
•  Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
•  Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server
   configuration
•  Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
•  Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
•  Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
•  Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
•  Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
•  Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
•  Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
•  Manage virtual machine resource use
•  Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
•  Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and
   VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
•  Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
•  Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines

Certifications
Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
•  VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) Audience
•  System administrators
•  System engineers