Training / Certification

I’m very happy with being awarded as the Independent VCI of Q2 2010. :-)

Kevin Johnson – VMware’s Northern Region Education Manager:

Eric has been very busy over the last 3 months and has delivered 14 classes over a wide range of subjects; two of these classes were LoL. Eric’s score were also consistently high. Eric is also very active in the VCI community.

Raymond Boelhouwer - Business Development Manager over at Global Knowledge:

Although Eric is a freelance instructor he has taught many advanced and new VMware courses for Global Knowledge in the last quarter. All his deliveries are granted high scores by the attendees even for first deliveries which are not easy to do. For an organization as Global Knowledge it is easy to work with Eric and you can trust a job well done.

Andy Cary - Senior Technical Trainer EMEA over at VMware

Congratulations on winning this award you had some tough competition! You also will receive a free pass to VCI day at VMworld.

This 3 day course explores a design methodology, criteria, and approach for designing a VMware vSphere 4 virtual datacenter architecture consisting of VMware ESX/ESXi 4 and VMware vCenter Server 4. This course, by discussing the benefits and risks of available design alternatives, provides information that supports making sound design decisions. This course also provides an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.

Duncan Epping, a Consulting Architect working for the VMware vCloud Services team, was involved in the development of this new training. He says: I was fortunate enough to be part of the development team for the Design Workshop. Notice the "Workshop" part as this course is different then any other VMware course you have done so far. Indeed it is a real workshop and it is all about discussing design considerations with your peers and crafting a design based on specific requirements and constraints. Although it is not an official pre-requisite I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to become a VCDX. I hope you will enjoy this workshop as much as we did creating it.

Duncan’s article regarding VMware's new approach for developing training courses will be available soon at yellow-bricks.com.

You can join me and reserve your seat at the following dates:

15 december Zwolle

Vyatta has released a new training course to help customers who are evaluating Vyatta for routing and security in VMware and XenServer. This course will show you common use cases as well as installation, verification and basic configuration of Vyatta OVF and XVA virtual appliances for adding routing & security to VMware ESX and XenServer environments.

Free - Watch this video now at: http://www.vyatta.com/promo/virtualfirewallcourse.php


This free training course is just one of over 20 courses in the Vyatta University curriculum. For a full course catalog visit: http://www.vyatta.com/services/training.php

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere 4,1, which consists of VMware ESX™/ESXi and VMware vCenter™ Server. The course is based on ESX/ESXi 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to qualify as a VMware Certified Professional (VCP4).

Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere courses.

The old 4-day course will change in duration to a 5-day class for all sessions after August 23rd. For differences please look at the course datasheet.

Scott Vessey has discovered some differences between the old and the new course. The new content in the 5-day ICM will be:

• vCenter Linked Mode
• Host Profiles
• Distributed Power Management
• Deeper content on High Availability
• Fault Tolerance