Courses

This four-day course is a follow-on to the VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage course. During this course, you will take a deeper dive into advanced topics using features of VMware Aria Automation such as deploying user systems and interfacing Aria Automation with other platforms. You will also learn how to deploy a cluster environment using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and interface with, and use, vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This course makes heavy use of hands-on labs.

During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® Aria Automation™ 8.17 on premises systems. You learn to use VMware Aria Automation to automate the delivery of virtual machines, applications, and personalized IT services across different data centers and hybrid cloud environments. The course covers how VMware® Aria Automation Service Broker™ can aggregate content in native formats from multiple clouds and platforms into a common catalog.

This course also covers interfacing VMware Aria Automation with other systems using VMware® Aria Automation Orchestrator™ and how to use VMware Aria Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and use other systems. In this course, you will use VMware® Aria Automation Config™ as a configuration management tool.

During this five-day course, you focus on using VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator™ to extend the functionality of VMware Aria Automation™. You learn how to provide XaaS (Anything as a Service) and implement machine lifecycle extensibility using the VMware Aria Automation Event Broker. You also learn how to create VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator workflows and VMware Aria Automation ABX actions. You learn about various features, including basic scripting implementation along with logic processing to implement a variety of functions to use in your environment. This course teaches implementing debugging, loops, conditions, and user interactions in VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator.

This three-day course features hands-on training that focuses on deploying, configuring, and managing VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs 8.12. You will learn the UI enhancements, features, architecture, use cases, and benefits of VMware Aria Operations for Logs. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to use VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 to monitor your environment.

This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware® Aria Operations™cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. This course includes advanced capabilities, such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards, and explains the deployment and architecture in VMware AriaOperations. This course explains application monitoring, certificates, policies, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards, and how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.

This two-day, hands-on training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle™, which manages products such as VMware Aria Operations™, VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs, and VMware Aria Automation™. This course prepares you to perform Day 0 to Day 2 operations for your environment using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.6. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organizations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in automating and operating a VCF private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations. You will learn about the architecture of VCF Automation, provider and organization management, provider and organization networking, and content library management. The course covers blueprints, catalogs, Supervisor management, and deploying workloads using the Catalog and IaaS portals. You will learn about VCF Operations overview, architecture, and navigating the user interface. You will explore customizing alerts, views, reports, dashboards, and policies. This course also explains VCF logs, storage, and network operations, health and diagnostics, service discovery, and application monitoring concepts.

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, operating and securing private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). You will learn about the architecture of VCF, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, and life cycle management, the course also covers upgrade scenarios.

This five-day course provides the knowledge and skills to build, manage, and secure a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private Cloud. You will explore VCF architecture, licensing models, and Private Cloud components at both the fleet and instance levels. The course covers end-to-end fleet deployment using the VCF Installer, post-deployment tasks including VCF Operations component setup, and fleet management through Single Sign-On configuration, VCF Identity Broker, role-based access control, and credential management. You will also deploy and manage workload domains, configure VMware NSX networking with Virtual Private Cloud constructs and Transit Gateway configurations, and manage vSAN storage using policies, fault domains, and VCF Operations monitoring tools.

The course also covers VCF certificate management using SDDC Manager with Microsoft CA, OpenSSL CA, and third-party certificate authorities. Students will perform lifecycle management operations including patching and upgrading VCF management and fleet components, and executing backup and restore procedures across the VCF fleet. In the VCF Security section, you will define security, compliance, and resilience in VCF, assess compliance posture using Security Posture Management, monitor security health through the Security Operations Dashboard, and review audit trail events. The course concludes with VCF upgrade paths to version 9.1, covering supported upgrade scenarios from vSphere 8.0 and VCF 5.2 environments.

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, and operating VMware® Cloud Foundation™. You will learn about the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting, the course also covers VMware® Aria Suite™ integration and VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components.

This five day course explores the architecture and design considerations for an initial deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The course explains the architecture framework and language, as well as design considerations for building, operationalizing, and consuming a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. The scope of the course is centered on the core design considerations applicable to a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment in a single site.

This course teaches the architectural constructs, design patterns and decision-making discipline needed to design a VMware Cloud Foundation solution at enterprise scale. You will be taken through a logical design sequence: the shape of the fleet, the management plane, the domain and cluster layout for each instance, and how a tenant consumes VCF services and resources. Physical design considerations are examined, along with network, storage, and the recovery design. You will apply design principles to a case study throughout, to reinforce key design decisions and how they can be applied in practice.

This three-day training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in troubleshooting problems in VMware Cloud Foundation™ infrastructure. In this course you are exposed to tools and methodologies that help you support and troubleshoot your VMware Cloud Foundation environment. In addition, various scenarios are presented to you in hands-on student labs and simulations where you will learn to identify, analyze, and solve problems systematically in VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure.

This comprehensive hands-on training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware® Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) 9.0 environments. This course blends lectures and hands-on lab exercises to develop advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VCF environments. This course also focuses on investigating and resolving problems and analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes.

This five-day course provides comprehensive training on considerations and practices to design a VMware NSX® environment as part of a software-defined data center strategy. This course prepares the student with the skills to lead the design of an NSX environment, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of the NSX architecture and how it can be used to create solutions to address the customer’s business needs.

This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the NSX 4.0.0.1 and NSX 4.0.1 releases, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more.

This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX infrastructure. This course introduces you to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your VMware NSX environment.

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.

During this four-day course, you learn about installing VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes GridTM in a VMware vSphere® environment and provisioning and managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters. The course covers how to install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages to provide services such as image registry, authentication, logging, ingress, multipod network interfaces, service discovery, image registry, and monitoring, in addition to day 2 operations such as backup, life cycle management, and application-specific tools. The concepts learned in this course are applicable for users who must install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on supported clouds.

During this four-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, troubleshooting and advanced vSAN cluster operations.

This two-day, hands-on training course provides the knowledge to troubleshoot VMware vSAN™ clusters. In this course, you will learn the best practices to maintain a healthy vSAN environment and mitigate potential issues that may occur with operation of the software. You will learn the GUI and CLI vSAN monitoring and troubleshooting tools. The course provides a logical framework for a systematic troubleshooting approach. You will learn how to troubleshoot vSAN common issues with examples. The labs provided in the course simulate real-world problems to evaluate and enhance your troubleshooting skills.

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, configuring and

managing VMware vSphere Foundation. You will learn about the architecture of vSphere Foundation, compute, storage,

networks and licensing.

This course prepares you to administer a vSphere Foundation, which includes VCF Operations 9.0, vCenter 9.0, and ESX 9.0.

During this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware vSphere® 8 environment. You learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services to deploy and manage virtual machines and vSphere Pods. You will also gain experience with managing Supervisor Services and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters in addition to day 2 operations and life cycle management.

This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere 8 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 three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere? 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.

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.

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 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.

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® ClientTM, log files, and other tools to analyze and solve problems.

In this two-day course, you explore the new features and enhancements following VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0. Real-world use-case scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere 8.0.