Training / Certification

Sunday, January 25. 2015

Free e-learning course - vCloud Air Fundamentals

This eLearning course on vCloud Air will provide you a fundamental understanding of vCloud Air and how customers can move or extend their on-premises data center to vCloud Air.

The course provides an overview of vCloud Air, the common challenges with public cloud offerings, common barriers to public cloud adoption, and how vCloud Air helps overcome these barriers.

The course then examines the vCloud Air service offerings and features, security and compliance standards, and networking concepts and services associated with vCloud Air. You will evaluate some use cases to understand how customers can get started with vCloud Air.

Finally, you will identify the various management tools that can be used to manage your vCloud Air environment with your on-premises virtual infrastructure.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

Explain how vCloud Air helps customers employ a hybrid cloud solution.
Explain vCloud Air networking concepts.
Explain the use of vCloud Air management tools.

Via Marc Huppert

Wednesday, January 21. 2015

VMware Exam Preparation Workshop: Network Virtualization Certified Professional (VCP-NV)

This 4 hour training course focuses on preparing a candidate to take the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization exam.

The workshop includes an overview of the certification program, tips for preparing for the exam, an in-depth review of each of the objectives on the exam and sample questions broken down in video segments by a VMware Certified Instructor.

By the end of the course, you should be prepared to answer questions based on the following exam objectives:

Describe and differentiate VMware NSX technology and architecture
Explain VMware NSX physical infrastructure requirements and prepare a physical deployment for NSX
Configure and administer vSphere networking components
Install and upgrade VMware NSX
Configure and manage VMware NSX virtual networks
Configure and manage VMware NSX network services
Configure and administer network security
Perform operations tasks in a VMware NSX environment
Troubleshoot a VMware network virtualization implementation

Thursday, January 15. 2015

Free e-learning course - VMware vRealize Operations Manager Fundamentals [V6.0]

This free eLearning course provides an overview of the high-level architecture, UI changes, and key features and functionalities of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0. The course also introduces the various management packs that can be used with vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

Describe the key features and benefits of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.
Explain the important functional and architectural changes in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.
Identify the key functionalities of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.
Describe the vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 management packs.

Monday, January 12. 2015

New Training Course - VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.1] - BETA

This comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX.

This course covers NSX as a part of the software-defined data center platform, implementation use cases along with features of NSX, and functionality operating at Layer 2 through Layer 7 of the OSI model.

Lecture and hands-on lab activities support the student’s understanding of NSX features, functionality, and on-going management and control.

Describe the software-defined data center
Describe how NSX is the next step in the evolution of the software-defined data center
Describe features and benefits of NSX network virtualization
Identify prerequisites for NSX
Configure and deploy NSX management, control, and data plane components
Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks
Configure and deploy NSX distributed router to optimize East-West data center traffic flows
Configure and deploy VMware NSX Edge™ services gateway appliances
Configure and use all the main features of the NSX Edge services gateway
Configure and use NSX virtual private networks
Configure and use logical load balancing
Configure NSX Edge firewall and Distributed Firewall policy rules
Configure service composer security groups and policies
Use role-based access to control user account privileges
Use activity monitoring to validate and create security policies
Describe how VMware vCloud® Automation Center™ and NSX enable automated provisioning of IT services and networks

VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.1] - BETA

Monday, January 5. 2015

New Training Course - VMware vRealize Business: Costing and Implementation

VMware vRealize Business (formerly VMware IT Business Management Suite) provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services, enabling the CIO to align IT with the business and accelerate IT transformation.

This four-day training course discusses IT costing as well as configuring and managing vRealize Business. This course will give you an understanding of the concepts and functionality of IT finance management with vRealize Business.

The objectives are:

Understand the vRealize Business system components
Understand, create, and manage cost models, hierarchies, allocations, and dimensions
Use prebuilt contents to analyze IT costs
Read data from various sources into the system
Manipulate data and perform calculations to get bottom-line results
Create various types of reports, dimensional reports, and dashboards
Use dimensions to manage your organization’s structures
Create and manage Web forms, reports, security, and permissions in the vRealize Business environment

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