Re: VMware Training

[Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen () imacandi net>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Phil Gardner <phil.gardnerjr () gmail com>wrote:

> On 02/19/2014 01:14 PM, Phil Gardner wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this list is the best place, but it is probably the only
> > list that I'm on that won't give me a bunch of grief about the chosen
> > technology.
> >
> > I looked at VMware's site, and there are a ton of options. I'm wondering
> > if anyone has some basic suggestions or experiences.
> >
> > I'm a Linux admin by trade (RH based), with "ok" networking ability. I'm
> > sufficiently versed in deploying scripted ESXi (including 5.x)
> > installations for a specific environment, including vswitches/SAN config
> > (but only with NFS datastores backed by a NetApp, unfortunately, no
> > blockbased stores).
> >
> > I'd like to get experience deploying VCenter clusters, down to DRS/HA
> > config, other block based storage, and anything else a large environment
> > needs.
> >
> > Thoughts or experiences?
> Thanks for the responses everyone. I will be petitioning my manager for
> the vShpere: Install, Configure, Manage v5.5 course.

As a note to this, if you get it approved, make sure that the trainer has
(a lot of) real life experience implementing vSphere. It makes a big
difference when you run into trouble with the labs or when you have
questions that are related to best practices.

Eugeniu