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Virtualisation education/trainings ? posted: Sep 2, 2009 9:36 PM

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vNic007
20 posts since
Sep 1, 2009

Hi All,

I would like to know from fellow vmware users to advice me on some other certs or trainings that will go with vmware. For your information , i am a new bie in vmware , with around 6 months of experience in using VI 3.5 environment and currently going through a VI4 training. I wanted to know this as i am working for corporate consulting firm and have some training budget allocated to me and would like to use it to strengthen my virtualisation skills. Any suggestions and advice would much appriciated.

Cheers!!

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Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

1. Sep 3, 2009 12:11 AM in response to: vNic007
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Anton V Zhban…
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I suppose MCSA / MCITP would be good for you since vCenter runs on Windows only now, and I suppose you'll be running lot of Windows VMs. If you will run Linux VMs too then you should get cert for corresponding Linux distrib.
Linux would be useful anyway, Service Console is a RHEL machine.

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Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

2. Sep 3, 2009 12:58 AM in response to: vNic007
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bulletprooffo…
806 posts since
Apr 14, 2009

If you are already doing vSphere Install Manage and configure, you could hold out a bit and get yourself on the Design or Availability course when it becomes available.

The other thing that will definitely be worth doing, is going on something like a powershell course, as knoweing how to use this will allow you to automate a LOT of work and also report / interrogate youer ESX hosts en masse

Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

3. Sep 3, 2009 5:38 AM in response to: bulletprooffo…
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weinstein5
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Nov 19, 2005
I would go along with what Bulletproof said - assuming you already have a wealth of IT exprience is continue you looking at the ocurses VMware is developing - the only other one I would also consider if you using ESX is a Linux course - also do not forgot to take the approriate certification exams like VCP

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Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

4. Sep 3, 2009 4:27 PM in response to: bulletprooffo…
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vNic007
20 posts since
Sep 1, 2009
thanks guys , i'll definitely keep an eye on upcoming VMware courses , what about powershell course ?? do we know any provider for that spec in AUS ? or do we know what all is covered in this course ? any links ??

i ve also heard that VMware is coming up with a ESX Troubleshooting course , anyone heard anything on this ?? any other course than Design that we guys know VMware is coming up with or has after VCP ???

Cheers!!

Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

5. Sep 4, 2009 6:15 AM in response to: vNic007
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firestartah
136 posts since
Aug 10, 2006

A really great free resource to learn how to use powershell that i am currently trying to get through is the VI-Toolkit labs document from this years VMworld Europe http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vi-toolkit-lab----vmworld-europe-2009.pdf


I'd also agree with all the other guys recommendations as it's pretty much the course i have followed and so far it is steading me well in my current role. If you want to learn virtualisation stuff check out an earlier posting from this week that has quite a bit of useful information http://communities.vmware.com/message/1348023#1348023

Good luck

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Re: Virtualisation education/trainings ?

6. Sep 6, 2009 9:42 PM in response to: firestartah
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vNic007
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Sep 1, 2009

thanks everyone , just got a good news from my manager , he is ok for me to spend my training budget i.e. 5000 US $ :) , so guys again any other suggestions or news on VMware trainings coming soon that would be helpful with VCP and goes along the lines of virtualisation Infrastructure area.

cheers :)

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