Top 5 Free VMware Fundamental Trainings

This post sums Top 5 Free VMware Fundamental Trainings. As you know, the VMware “fundamental” training are free and so it's quite interesting to get you started with product or technology without paying a dime. Those free pieces of training are delivered to your web browser so you'll need an internet connection in order to follow the courses.

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Let's get back to our Top 5 Free VMware Fundamental Trainings. I list five of them only but know that there is more. The courses are listed In no particular order.

01. Horizon View: What's New [V6.2] Fundamentals:

Course Outline:

1. Enhanced Features of Horizon 6.2 – New Enhancements in Horizon 6.2
   –  Deploying RDSH Farm Through View Composer
   –  Comparing Linked Clone in VDI and RDSH
   –  Enhanced RDSH Load Balancing (Check out my post How to publish RDS application in Horizon View 6. )
   –  Perfmon-Based Load Reporting, Perfmon-Based Load Reporting Script
   –  RDS Applications with Cloud Pod Architecture
   –  HTML  Access for Cloud Pod Architecture
   –  Enabling 3D Support for RDSH Applications
   –  Integration with User Environment Manager
   –  Virtual SAN All Flash Support, Stretched Clusters Support
   –  One-Way Trust Support
   –  Access Point Integration
   –  Biometric Support for Mobile
   –  Horizon 6 FIPS
2. Introduction to the CART 3.5 Features – Client Drive Redirection for VDI and RDSH
   –  File Type Association for Published Apps
   –  Linux Desktop Guest Logoff Automation
   –  Graphical Enhancements

You can register for the 45 min Free Training Horizon View 6.0 Fundamentals Here (note: you’ll need VMware education account).

02. vCloud Director Fundamentals E-learning Course

The course is based on the latest vCloud Director v 8.10 and it is 3.5 hours long.

Course Outline:

1. Cloud Computing and VMware vCloud Director
2. VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components
3. VMware vCloud Director Installation and Configuration
4. VMware vCloud Director Administration
5. Network Administration in VMware vCloud Director
6. VMware vCloud Director End-User Tasks

You can register for this course through this link –  vCloud Director Fundamentals 2016.

03. VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals 2016

Outline (simplified):

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to SDDC and Network Virtualization – Completely Virtualized SDDC, Networking and Security Services Abstraction, Virtual Network Services…
• VMware NSX Components and Services – VMware NSX Functional Planes, standard and distributed switch, NSX logical switching, VXLAN, NSX routing, NSX Edge…
• VMware NSX Security – NSX distributed firewall, NSX service composer…
• NSX Use Cases – Top use cases, Micro-segmentation, DMZ anywhere, Examples building a Web DMZ, VDI, vRealize Automation, DR with NSX

You can register for this course through this link – VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals 2016.

04. VMware Identity Manager Fundamentals

1 h long.

Outline (simplified) :

1.  Course Introduction

–  How Identity Manager Works
–  Benefits of Identity Manager
–  Features of Identity Manager

2. VMware Identity Manager: Technical Overview

–  Setup Requirements
–  High-Level Deployment Overview
–  Install the Identity Manager OVA File
–  Configure Identity Manager Settings
–  XenApp Integration with Identity Manager
–  Introduction to Horizon Desktop
–  Horizon Desktop Integration with Identity Manager
–  Using Horizon Desktop from Identity Manager

… ++

You can register for this course through this link – VMware Identity Manager Fundamentals.

05. VMware Site Recovery Manager [V6.1] Fundamentals

1 h long.

Outline (simplified)

1. Introduction to the challenges of traditional Disaster Recovery (DR), the capabilities of Site Recovery Manager, and its business use cases.

• List the failover sites possible with Site Recovery Manager, as in where can the DR site be located
• List key use cases and the benefits of Site Recovery Manager
• Explain the benefits and process of Disaster Recovery (DR) with virtual machines and Site Recovery Manager 6.1
• Describe the challenges and process of traditional methods of Disaster Recovery
• Describe the causes and impacts of a disaster on an organization

2. An introduction to terminology, core components, and high-level implementation requirements of Site Recovery Manager 6.1

You can register for this course through this link – VMware Site Recovery Manager [V6.1] Fundamentals

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