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VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp® & Official Certified Virtualization Expert® (CVE®)

Overview

The Ultimate Bootcamp® is taught by the top virtualization experts, with hands-on labs designed to expose the student to advanced virtualization concepts and VMware’s VI3.5 Product. This comprehensive class prepares the student to become a professional virtualization expert with the certification Certified Virtualization Expert® (CVE®) to attest to their knowledge of the material and technology.

Ultimate Bootcamps are designed to give the student in-depth skills training through hands-on experience with state-of-the art equipment.

The focus of the VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp is to instill the knowledge required for the student to do their job efficiently and effectively. To accomplish this, we provide a comprehensive Beginner to Advanced training experience, starting from the installation of the licensed product to real world troubleshooting scenarios. The course focus is not limited only to learning and harnessing the power of VMware® but the entire concept of virtualization and other 3rd party tools and technologies that will enhance VMware® capabilities and increase the student’s virtualization expertise.

VMTraining is the only company to teach and perform labs on VMware® ESXi 3.5, VMware's newest addition to the VI 3.5 line of products and the future of the VI suite.

Course Summary

  • Five (5) 10 hour days of intense instruction with no outside distractions.
  • Personal access to the top virtualization experts in the industry.
  • Each student is provided their own dedicated server for practice and application.
  • 50 + labs to hone the student's skills and gain a 360° perspective on how to build and maintain virtual environments.
  • Install, configure, deploy, secure, analyze, consolidate and design virtual networks from beginner to advanced levels.
  • Lunch and snacks provided on each day of class.
  • Application of third party solutions to simplify processes and make the job easier.
  • Post-mentoring from the best virtualization instructors in the industry.
  • A higher market value for students becoming a Certified Virtualization Expert™.

Course Objectives

To train the Ultimate virtualization expert through intense immersion in a five day accelerated VMware ESX training Ultimate Bootcamp.

This course includes all the content you would find in 5 of VMware’s most popular courses:

  • VMware I3 - What's New
  • VMware I3 - Install and Configure
  • VMware I3 - Deploy, Secure, and Analyze
  • VMware I3 - P2V Assistant (converter)
  • VMware I3 – Fast Track

Upon the completion of the Ultimate Bootcamp, students will learn:

  • About all of the new and exciting features of VMware Infrastructure 3.5
  • Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
  • How to install, configure and support ESX server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5
  • How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
  • How to configure Virtual Networking and how to support VMotion
  • P2V , V2V, V2P, and P2P Methods and Techniques
  • Server Consolidation Procedures and reasoning
  • Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware, Platespin, Vizioncore, Veeam, and more
  • Vmotion, Update Manager, Power Management, Guided Consolidation, Clustering –DRS/HA,etc.
  • Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
  • How to perform backups in the ESX Environment - Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB
  • How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX Servers - ESX commands
  • How to install, configure, and troubleshoot ESX Licensing server.

Who Should Attend

System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter. The Ultimate Bootcamp is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience.

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.

Course Length

5 Days

Essential Third Party Tools

Any job is easy when you have the right tools. In the VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp®, the student will be introduced to and learn how to apply third party tools that, when utilized in conjunction with VMware, will not only enhance the students' skills but simplify processes, optimize efficiency, and make the administrators job that much easier.

Quality "Resourceware" and Follow-up Continuing Education

With more than a 750 page course manual and a 250 page lab book, Ultimate Bootcamp® courseware is intuitively designed to help the student easily move through the chapters regardless of their level of experience and will serve as a reference source even after the class. This unique feature of all Ultimate Bootcamps is what attracts so many students looking for a great training experience.

Securing the Virtual Environment

Despite many advances in system security, most major operating systems remain plagued by security vulnerabilities. Special attention is given on how to secure the virtual environment by using advanced Virtual Server Architecture strategies, allowing innovation through design and exploiting a safe execution environment.

Official Certified Virtualization Expert® Prometric™ Exam

Students will finish the week by taking the Certified Virtualization Expert® Exam. Delivered in a professional testing environment, the 2 hour exam is designed to validate the information covered in the Ultimate Bootcamp®, and certify the student as a subject matter expert in the application of Virtualization technologies. To receive the certification the student must successfully complete the Ultimate Bootcamp® and pass the examination with a 75% score or higher.

Certified Virtualization Expert
Prometric

 

Quality content, highest level of training, and a state-of-the-art datacenterBenefits of the VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp

Your Students Will Receive Complete Training at HALF THE COST

Ultimate Bootcamps save time and thousands of dollars over training from VMware® directly or other outside courses that over promise and under deliver. This course includes all the content you would find in 4 of VMware’s most popular courses:

  • VMware I3 - What's New
  • VMware I3 - Install and Configure
  • VMware I3 - Deploy, Secure, and Analyze
  • VMware I3 - P2V Assistant (converter)
  • VMware I3 – Fast Track


Quality Content

Courseware manuals have 850+ pages and provide students with FOUR TIMES the material of a standard 4 day course from other training companies.

Lab books with over 250 pages contains 50 plus Hands-On-Labs to reinforce lessons and instill confidence in your students' abilities to become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on virtualization.


Qualified Instructors Make A Difference

Certified and experienced instructors: The Ultimate Bootcamp instructors are not just instructors. They are also consultants who have performed small, medium and large consolidation projects, who have real world experience using the virtualization technology and techniques that they teach. Bringing this experience into the classroom gives the student a real training experience not found in other 9-5 training programs. Students are able to work on their own and bring questions they have into the classroom and ask the "What Ifs" that they are working on in their own environment.


Industry Recognized Education and Certification

Certified Virtualization ExpertKnowing "how" to do something means more to an employer than a piece of paper that says you have "passed a test." However, certification is important in quickly communicating qualifications and potentially opens doors to better opportunities. With the Ultimate Bootcamp you get both. VMTraining delivers more than what you would get with a limited value manufacturers certification, which only teaches manufacturer specific book knowledge, where complete knowledge transfer is not always achieved or verified, and yet students still are able to achieve a manufacturer specific certification.


Access to Instructors and Servers After the Bootcamp

Ultimate Bootcamp graduates are given access to the CVE® forums and community after completing the Bootcamp. Benefits include:

  • Access to Ultimate Bootcamp® servers to work on and perform testing outside of the production environment.
  • Technical support and advice for design and trouble-shooting virtualization environments.

Students Work on VMware HCL Hardware with a State-of-the-Art Datacenter

Just Say No to Shared ServersWith over 100 quality Dell Servers, Gigabit Switches, 100 Megabit Internet connectivity, Dual SANs, you can be assured your student will receive the ultimate experience of working on the best equipment available today.

Each student is assigned their own dedicated Dell Poweredge server with 24 hour access to a real data center with over 100 physical servers during the bootcamp week. Students do NOT have to share servers. Shared servers ARE utilized in VMware® Authorized Training classes.

Students will perform all labs on hardware you find in a real data centers and not PC’s like you find in other VMware® Training courses. Having 24/7 unlimited access to the datacenter means the student can leverage the learning experience by revisiting labs where other courses have limited hours and access to servers. This flexibility allows students to learn at their own pace without time constraints or distractions.


Perform Real World Labs (and more labs...)

The VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp is not a VMware® Authorized Course. Therefore, students will be exposed to independent, third party solutions, which are not covered in VMware® classes but are actually utilized in the real world environment.

The course has over 50 labs, the most of any training program available, leading to 65% of the class time spent learning by hands-on labs. The time spent performing hands-on labs allows the student to develop the skills, knowledge, and techniques needed to implement VI3.5 in a production environment.

 

VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp Course Structure

**HOL – A Hands-on Lab is provided for students on this chapter.

Chapter 1
Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)


Chapter 2
Virtualization Overview


Chapter 3
Planning and Installing ESX (HOL)


Chapter 4
Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment (HOL)


Chapter 5
Patching and Upgrading ESX

  1. Patching ESX Server (HOL)
  2. Upgrades and Migrations (HOL)
  3. VI3 Deployment Guidelines
  4. Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
  5. Troubleshooting ESX Server

Chapter 6
Configuring Networking

  1. Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
  2. Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)

Chapter 7
Configuring Storage

  1. iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
  2. Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Command Line)
  3. VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
  4. NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
  5. Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)
  6. Storage Comparisons

Chapter 8
VirtualCenter and License Server

  1. Licensing
  2. VirtualCenter Installation (HOL)
  3. VirtualCenter Inventory (HOL)
  4. Managing VirtualCenter
  5. Planning VirtualCenter Deployment
  6. Troubleshooting VirtualCenter, license, and databas

Chapter 9
VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots

  1. Create a VM (HOL)
  2. Create Multiple VMs (HOL)
  3. Physical to Virtual Conversions (HOL)
  4. Manage VMs (HOL)
  5. Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown
  6. Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
  7. Web Access (HOL)
  8. Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Chapter 10
Security and Permissions

  1. Security Overview (HOL)
  2. User Access (HOL)
  3. ESX AD Integration (HOL)
  4. Managing Firewall (HOL)
  5. SSH Access (HOL)
  6. Configuring Sudo (HOL)

Chapter 11
Advanced ESX and VirtualCenter Management

  1. Configuring Resource Pools (HOL)
  2. Configuring VMotion(HOL)
  3. Storage VMotion (HOL)
  4. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
  5. Resource Pools in DRS Cluster (HOL)
  6. Update Manager (HOL)

Chapter 12
Disaster Recovery and Backup

  1. Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
  2. High Availability (HA) (HOL)
  3. Microsoft Clustering
  4. Backup Strategies
  5. Using VCB Command Line Utilities (HOL)
  6. Third Party Backups (HOL)

Chapter 13
Server and VM Monitoring

  1. Tools for Optimization
  2. Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
  3. Configuring Alarms (HOL)
  4. Collecting Log Files (HOL)

Chapter 14
Installing and Configuring ESXi (HOL)

 

*Please note that this content is meant to be a guideline.
Class material is subject to change and may be presented in a slightly different format than listed.

Certified Virtualization ExpertCVE® Certification

Why Should Individuals Get Certified?

Certification can lead to better visibility, opportunities, and jobs. In today's increasingly complex and highly-specialized economy, credentials are everything. Sure, the student knows that he/she has the skills to do the job, but how do they convince potential customers and employers? For many career-minded professionals, certification is often the answer.

For IT professionals, it is recognized as a valuable way to prove professional credentials to employers and the general public. For others, the topic can generate a puzzled response. Why become certified? Isn't a college degree and/or years of practical hands-on experience enough to establish one's credentials? Either response of yes or no is correct, depending on your clientele and colleagues.

How to get a CVE® Certification

  • Attend an Official Ultimate Bootcamp® prior to taking the test.
  • Pass the Prometric CVE® exam (VT0-VUB) with a score of 75% or better.

The CVE® exam is 2 hours in length, consists of 80 questions covering critical virtualization technologies in use today.

Click Here to Learn More About CVE Certification

 

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