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Our approach is unique, and not specific to a particular subset of industry verticals but, rather, specific to the objectives and needs of all businesses – ensuring that an organizations technology investments not only make sense but that they also satisfy business requirements. Your business challenge is our business challenge, and it’s in our expertise that gives us the enablement to ensure that the business equation is solved with the most sensible and cost effective solution.

Our current course offerings are listed below, including appropriate schedules and course syllabus. To learn more about our training and current course offerings or to reserve a seat in an upcoming course, please contact us for more information.

VMS-FT1 – VMware vSphere 4: Fast Track

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware® vSphere™. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Upon completing this course, you can take the examination to qualify as a VMware Certified Professional.
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VMS-ICM – VMware vSphere: Install, Configure and Manage

This deep hands-on training course explores VMware vSphere. At the end of the course, you should be able to install and configure ESX, install and configure vCenter Server, configure and manage ESX networking and storage using vCenter Server, deploy and manage virtual machines, manage user access to the VMware infrastructure, increase scalability using vCenter Server, monitor resource usage using vCenter Server, apply patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager, and manage higher availability and data protection using vCenter Server.
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VMS-SWN – VMware vSphere: What’s New

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server, ESX, and ESXi 4, as well as how to upgrade to VMware vSphere 4. 
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VMV-ICM – VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware ThinApp.
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VMV-VE – VMware View Essentials Workshop

This course introduces the student to VMware View. Students will learn about the use cases, functionality, features, and benefits of VMware View.
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VMW-CP2 – VMware Capacity Planner 2.5

VMware Capacity Planner is a consolidation assessment and decision support tool used by organizations to build the best possible infrastructure virtualization plan to contain server sprawl and reduce power and cooling costs. VMware Capacity Planner automates the data collection and analysis of server resources and their performance and utilization profiles, so that you can justify your virtualization projects and drive your business. This course trains consultants and systems engineers to use VMware proprietary tools to collect and view system, inventory, and performance data for use in consolidation, capacity planning, and performance tuning projects. 
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VMW-DES – VMware Infrastructure Design

This hands-on training course explores the foundations of designing VMware Infrastructure architectures. At the end of this course, you should be able to: implement best practices and evaluate design considerations to meet business needs; distribute resources across ESX clusters automatically and ensure high availability; architect remote and branch offices; and design to support certain enterprise applications. This course is targetted at system architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware Infrastructure architectures. This course has a prerequisite of achievement of a passing score on a short, online test.
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VMW-SO1 – VMware Skills for Operators

This hands-on training course focuses on day-to-day management of VMware Infrastructure 3 deployments. It covers selected features of VMware ESX and VMware VirtualCenter. It does not qualify participants to attempt the examination for VMware Certified Professional status. At the end of this course, you should be able to: install and configure virtual machines; deploy virtual machines from templates; migrate and manage virtual machines; monitor and troubleshoot virtual machine problems; and apply patches to virtual machines using VMware Update Manager.
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VMW-SRM – VMware Site Recovery Manager

This hands-on training course is aimed at experienced VMware Infrastructure 3 administrators. The course covers installation, configuration, and operation of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and testing of disaster recovery plans with SRM. At the end of the course, you should be able to: create a disaster recovery workflow for your virtual machines using SRM; install SRM components; configure SRM storage replication adapters; configure SRM protected and recovery sites; configure SRM array managers; define SRM inventory mappings; create SRM recovery plans; test SRM recovery plans; and execute SRM recovery plans (failover). This course has a prerequisite of achievement of a passing score on a short, online test.
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