[169350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VMware Training
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Fri Feb 21 12:45:34 2014
In-Reply-To: <53078ED1.4020802@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:44:52 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Phil Gardner <phil.gardnerjr@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
