CertFirst

CertFirst with its partners has designed this special 5 day customized boot camp program for its clients to get the most out of their investment.
Delivery Remote access to dedicated rack of servers with one HP
DL365 server/student, an iSCSI SAN, etc. Max Attendees Limited by server availability. CertFirst currently has access to 150+
student servers available Hardware & Infrastructure Requirements:

Course can be run from any location that has a reliable
Internet connection. Each attendee needs a PC that supports Microsoft Terminal Services Lab Time 40+% of class time is devoted to hands-on labs Certification Prepares attendees to challenge the independent Certified Virtualization Specialist exam (Exam is provided on-line is included in the package price).

Overview
This powerful 5-day class is an intensive introduction to VMware
vSphere™ 5.0 including VMware ESX™ 5.0 and vCenter™. Assuming no prior
virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. 40+% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced.
Labs start with installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers and progress to shared storage, networking and centralized management. The class continues to advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, power management, back up and recovery, performance, vCenter redundancy, VM redundancy. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered.

This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify and eliminate common IT pain points and then to use virtualization to delivers clear, tangible benefits. Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value;

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