VMware skills are in demand! Michigan Technology Services offers several instructor-led VMware virtualization courses. The training can take place at our location in Farmington Hills, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or onsite at your office anywhere throughout the United States.

A brief overview of the popular VMware vSphere 4.0® Ultimate Bootcamp® that we conduct is listed below. A more detailed outline is available.

Please watch this informative video that describes the VMware course.

VMware vSphere 4.0® Ultimate Bootcamp® & Official Certified Virtualization Expert® (CVE®)

• 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 – which can be accessed after class hours.
• 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.
• 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™.

Upon the completion of the Ultimate Bootcamp course, you will have learned:

• About all of the new and exciting features of VMware vSphere 4.0
• Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
• How to install, configure, and support ESX Server 4 and vCenter 4
• How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
• How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing.
• 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, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering - DRS/HA, etc.
• Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
• How to perform backups in the ESX environment --Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB and Data Recovery
• How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX & ESXi Servers - ESX commands
• How to Configure and optimize storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning

Starting later in 2010 we will offer a VMware security course – a course designed and developed from the perspective of how a hacker will get into your VMware environment.

For a complete VMware Bootcamp course outline and pricing information on other classes contact Michigan Technology Services. 248-489-0408