A week ago I posted about an upcoming class titled “managing for performance“. As many of you know Scott Drummonds, VMware’s performance guru was involved in crafting this excellent course. This is VMware’s new approach for developing new training material / courses. Course material will be developed with the help of the Subject Matter Experts within the company.
I was fortunate enough to be part of the development team for the VMware vSphere 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.
Again a great job by the VMware Education Team, I just love this new concept. For those who can’t wait, check this section of the VMware website to see where they are scheduled. And for the Benelux readers, Eric Sloof is running three of these workshops soon… be there!
Source: VMware vSphere: Design Workshop
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Provide a general overview of the course
Module 2: Design Process Overview
- Discuss the design methodology, criteria, and approach
- Introduce an example five-step design process
Module 3: ESX/ESXi Host Design
- Identify useful information for making host design decisions
- Analyze best practices and host design alternatives
Module 4: vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
- Identify useful information for making vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design decisions
- Analyze best practices and vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design alternatives
Module 5: vSphere Network Design
- Identify useful information for making network design decisions
- Analyze best practices and network design alternatives
Module 6: vSphere Storage Design
- Identify useful information for making storage design decisions
- Analyze best practices and storage design alternatives
Module 7: Virtual Machine Design
- Identify useful information for making virtual machine design decisions
- Analyze best practices and virtual machine design alternatives
Module 8: Management and Monitoring Design
- Identify useful information for making management and monitoring design decisions
- Analyze best practices and management and monitoring design alternatives
mandatory for every vmware enterprise partner
what is it that there are classes in the middle of nowhere – and in countries that have no indoor plumbing, yet nothing in the US mid-Atlantic corridor where most of the east coast tech is centered?
/This also applies to EMC (Don’t get me started on that one)…
There was one in Atlanta, but it already passed. The only one here for the rest of the year is for VI3 🙁
When demand will grow more will be scheduled I am certain about that.
If I had one complaint, it’s that it’s only a 3 day class! I really think this one could be a 5 day course and you could still find plenty to do =)
@sketch: Not sure what country you are referring to specifically, but they certainly have a good VMware training infrastructure 🙂
Looks like there are many training offerings in Europe, so why don’t you come over for VMworld Europe and give it a try.
I don’t think it is VMware who drives this, it’s the VATC who decides if they want to run these or not.
I am booked on this course in June this year… hopefully will stand me in good stead on my journey to become a VCDX