VMware offer a number of instructor-led training courses around
their key products, such as vSphere, View, and Site Recovery
Manager. The vSphere curriculum is comprised of beginner,
mid-level, and higher-level courses, Global Knowledge also offer a
preparation workshop for the VMware Certified Professional on
vSphere 4 (VCP4) certification exam.
Foundation-level vSphere
VSPHERE:
INSTALL, CONFIGURE, MANAGE - 5 DAYS - VSICM
This is the
“standard” vSphere course for those who want to get to grips with
the key benefits of running virtualized applications, and learn how
to deploy vSphere and enable the core features that allow an
organization to begin to take advantage of such benefits.
VSPHERE: WHAT’S NEW - 2 DAYS - VMWN
Do you have experience
with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3), and want to know what VMware
have improved and added in vSphere 4? This course will deliver
that! Not only is the course going to help update your skills for
vSphere 4, it will also help you plan and perform a migration or
upgrade from VI3 to vSphere 4.
Advanced-level vSphere
VSPHERE:
TROUBLESHOOTING - 4 DAYS - VST
Are you up to the challenge
of problem-solving a huge variety of system and configuration
issues on a broken vSphere system? Once you’ve learned about the
key troubleshooting resources and techniques, your instructor will
introduce fault after fault on your lab systems - and it’s down to
you to fix them!
VSPHERE: MANAGE FOR PERFORMANCE - 3 DAYS - VSMP
If you
want to know how to maximise performance in a vSphere environment,
this is the course for you! We go “under the bonnet” and discuss
all the elements that can affect performance, you’ll learn all the
key resource metrics, and how to optimise host and guest
configurations and the underlying infrastructure to get your
virtualized applications running at maximum warp!
VSPHERE: DESIGN WORKSHOP - 3 DAYS - VSD
Those who work in
a pre or post-sales role, or are otherwise involved in
designing/architecting deployments of vSphere are the perfect
target audience for this workshop. We cover all the elements that
comprise a successful vSphere 4 design, and a case study allows you
to apply the skills and knowledge gained.
VSPHERE: MANAGE AND DESIGN FOR SECURITY - 2 DAYS -
VSMDS
Learn how to incorporate security best practices
into your vSphere design, and how to harden an existing vSphere
deployment. This course brings alive the vSphere Security Hardening
Guide and gives you the chance to lock-down live systems.
VSPHERE: AUTOMATION WITH VSPHERE POWERCLI - 2 DAYS -
VSA
“If you have to do it twice, script it!” Every vSphere
administrator finds themselves repeating tasks, applying the same
configuration over and over, discovering information about their
environment and creating reports - learn how to use vSphere
PowerCLI to automate many of these and save yourself some time!
VMware View
VIEW:
INSTALL, CONFIGURE, MANAGE - 3 DAYS - VMVIEW4
If your
organization or your customers are considering desktop
virtualization, VMware View 4 is the new Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) product designed to integrate with vSphere.
You will gain the skills and knowledge to deploy and administer
View, including PC over IP (PCoIP), View Composer and ThinApp.
VIEW: DESIGN BEST PRACTICES - 2 DAYS - VMVD
This course follows-on perfectly from View: Install, Configure,
Manage and gives you the ability to architect View solutions
according to VMware best practice. Contact us on 0118 912 3456 for
more information.
THINAPP: APPLICATION VIRTUALISATION WITH VMWARE THINAPP - 1 DAY
- VSTA
Free your applications from the underlying operating system by
learning how to repacking them with VMware ThinApp. Contact us on
0118 912 3456 for more information.
vCloud Director
VCLOUD
DIRECTOR: OVERVIEW - 1 DAY - VMCO
This is a 1-day workshop
aimed at those who want an introductory look at vCloud Director,
there’s a few instructor-led demos and a couple of hands-on labs
too.
VCLOUD DIRECTOR: ARCHITECHING THE VMWARE CLOUD - 3 DAYS -
VMAVC
Need to know how to design a solution based on
vCloud Director and vSphere? This workshop will give you the chance
to participate in group discussions and case study designs that
will help you establish a private or public cloud solution.
Site Recovery Manager
VMWARE
SITE RECOVERY MANAGER - 2 DAYS - VMSRM
Do you want to
learn about how you can use VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to
ease and automate the Disaster Recovery (DR) process for
virtualized applications and services? During this course we cover
the deployment and configuration process for SRM, and a large
number of guidelines and best practices around configuring your
virtual environment for the simplest DR processes.
Fast Track Courses
Global Knowledge also
offer a number of Fast Track courses for vSphere and View, each
course combines all the materials from a number of courses into a
single, extended-hours course. There are three Fast Track courses
available, each offering 7 days of training in 5 days:
Other vSphere Courses
VSPHERE:
VCP4 EXAM PREPARATION WORKSHOP - 1 DAY - VSEXP
If you’re
taking the VCP4 exam for vSphere, this workshop will maximise your
chances of getting that great score you want! Our workshop is
unique in the UK, written by an exam veteran who knows all the
“tricks of the trade” with certification exams. We focus on
improving your exam technique and the key study areas for VCP4, all
designed to help you do yourself justice on the big day!
VSPHERE: SKILLS FOR OPERATORS - 2 DAYS - VSSO
Those who
work in IT Operations/Support and are responsible for deploying and
maintaining virtual machines in a vSphere 4 environment will
benefit from attending this course, incorporating some of the
materials and labs from the VSICM course.
VSPHERE: OVERVIEW - 1 DAY - VSO
The target audience is
primarily the key decision maker in an organization such as an IT
Manager, or IT Director, where they wish to gain an appreciation of
what virtualization technology can bring to their organisation,
with focus on the key elements of vSphere.