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You'll be VMware® vSphere 5 certified in just 5 days. With us, you’ll be VMware® vSphere 5 trained in record time
Our VMware® vSphere 5 course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals. No hidden extras
Pass VMware® vSphere 5 first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We're sure you'll pass your VMware® vSphere 5 course first time. But if you don’t, come back within a year, and only pay for accommodation and exams. Everything else is free
You’ll learn more VMware® vSphere 5. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9am – 5pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day quality learning time, with your instructor
You’ll learn VMware® vSphere 5 faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
You’ll be studying VMware® vSphere 5 with the best. We have the Q-For quality label, recognising our standards and professionalism in the training market. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified 30,000 professionals, and we’re partners with all of the big names in the business
You'll do more than study VMware® vSphere 5 courseware. We use practical exercises to make sure you can apply your new knowledge to the work environment. Our instructors use demonstrations and real-world experience to keep the day interesting and engaging

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VMware® - vSphere 5 Ultimate Bootcamp
Start	Finish	Status	Location	Book now
8/4/2013 (Monday)	12/4/2013 (Friday)	Finished	-

We've trained more than 30,000 students in ten years. We asked them all to review our Accelerated Learning. Currently, 95.88% have said Firebrand exceeded their expectations:

"Ive been impressed with the amount of knowledge our trainer had, not just product knowledge but "real world" understanding. for me this was helpful in understanding a few key areas of the course. The course material was intense but it has given me greater knowledge and Im keen to get back into my workplace to see how Im able to improve our systems"
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"The instructor was brilliant, you could tell straight away that he was very knowledgable and had a vast real world hands on experiance. He was very good at explaning difficult concepts very easily"
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"Very good course - in depth knowledge. Days become a bit long, since lessons are given from 8.30-21.00, but if you are keen doing not much else than studying, this is great."
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This VMware® vSphere 5.1 course prepares you to become a Certified Virtualization expert (CVE 5®). This bootcamp packs seven VMware® vSphere courses into one class. This means you'll save 67% in cost and 72% in time with our vSphere Ultimate Bootcamp.

You'll learn:

About all of the new features of VMware vSphere® 5.1
All the relevant terms and concepts concerning virtualization
How to install, configure, and support ESXi Server 5 and vCenter™ 5
How to configure Virtual Networking; including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones, and how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing.
P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
Server Consolidation procedures
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.
Virtual Enterprise Best Practices
How to perform backups in the ESXi environment: Service Console, Virtual Machines, VCB and Data Recovery
How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESXi Servers
How to configure and optimise storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning

You will learn how to use these tools:

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.

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Certified Virtualization Expert 5.1® (CVE5®) is a vendor-neutral certification offered by Firebrand Training. Here are a few facts about the course and the subject:

More than 20 hours will be spent on practical, hands-on learning.
Server consolidation can provide a 90% saving on IT equipment and bills
100% of the Fortune 100 is virtualizing
VMware has an 80% share of the virtualisation market
Cloud computing is currently top of the list for IT spend
On the course, you will have the opportunity to play with a server all to yourself. There's no need to share with a partner
More than 3,000 professionals have gained the CVE certification worldwide

The exam that you will sit deals with much more than the VMware Certified Professional (VCP®) exam. CVE® encompasses critical virtualization technologies used today. You will be trained and tested on VMware, Microsoft and other Virtualization technologies, with a prime focus on VMware's ESX.

As a student of the Vsphere 5.1 Certified Virtualization Expert class, you will gain free access to the VM Training Lab Datacenter for up to one year after the class attendance. This is provided upon request only and is limited by availability. If they have a server available for you - it's yours!

Because we use VM Training courseware, we can cover a wider range of topics and value-added technologies:

Third-party tools that are actually used in the field
Longer class hours to instill real-world knowledge and exam preparation
More than 65% of class time will be used to perform hands-on labs

The benefit of using third-party tools include:

Tools like PuTTY or FastSCP are administrative tools that will be used routinely by our students in their virtual environments
The tools are designed to either supplement or replace components of VMware’s products
The tools make the IT professional's life easier and more efficient

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:

Intensive group instruction
One-on-one instruction attention
Hands-on labs
Lab partner and group exercises
Question and answer drills
Independent study

This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering training. Courses that include certification come with a certification guarantee. Pass first time or train again for free (just pay for accommodation and exams on your return). We do not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes.

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CVE® exam (VT0-VUB)

In order to gain this CVE® certification, you will need to gain a score of 75% in the above exam. This is two hours in length, and consists of 80 questions covering critical virtualization technologies in use today.

Please note this is not the same as the VCP® (VMware Certified Professional) certification. You’ll learn enough on the course to sit the VCP exam. However, you’ll not gain the VCP certification, unless you sit a VMware direct course.

Second Shot Free policy

Firebrand offers a guaranteed certification. It's unlikely, but if you were to fail this exam the first time, you can re-train and re-sit the exam with us for free. You would only pay for accommodation.

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Chapter 1 - Course Introduction and Methodology

Chapter 2 - Virtualization Overview and What’s New in vSphere 5.1

Chapter 3 - Planning and Installing ESXi 5.1 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)

Planning ESXi 5.1 Server Deployment
Deployment Guidelines
ESXi 5.1 Image Builder
ESXi 5.1 Server Install
Conﬁguring Hostname Resolution and NTP
Troubleshooting ESXi 5.1 Server

Chapter 4 - Using Tools to Administer a VMware® Environment

Overview of 3rd Party Tools
ESXi Management (vSphere Client, NEW V5.1 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web)
Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)

Chapter 5 - vCenter™ Server 5.1 and Licensing

Demystifying vSphere 5.1 Licensing
vCenter Server 5.1 Installation
vCenter Server 5.1 Virtual Appliance
vCenter Server 5.1 Inventory
Managing vCenter Server 5.1
vCenter Solutions Manager
Planning vCenter Server 5.1 Deployment

Chapter 6 - Conﬁguring Networking

Create & Modify Virtual Networks
Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI
vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC
Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting (NetFlow, Port Mirror, LLDP, 802.1p Tagging)

Chapter 7 - Conﬁguring Storage

Storage Concepts, Storage Awareness & Proﬁle Driven Storage
iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line)
Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
VMFS 5.1 Datastores and SSD (GUI & Command Line)
NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

Chapter 8 - VM Creation and Conﬁguration & Snapshots

Create a VM
Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones
Virtual Appliances
VMware vCenter™ Standalone Converter (P2V, V2V)
Manage VMs
Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown
Virtual Machine Snapshots
vSphere 5.1 Web Client
Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Chapter 9 - Security and Permissions

Controlling User Access and Passwords
ESXi 5.1 AD Integration
Managing ESXi 5.1 Firewall (GUI & Command Line)
VMSafe and vShield Zones

Chapter 10 - Server and VM Monitoring

Conﬁguring Alarms
VM Optimization for vSphere 5.1 Licensing
Optimizing Resources
Monitor VM Performance
Using NetFlow Tool
ESXi, vCenter™ Logs and syslog

Chapter 11 - Advanced ESXi and vCenter™ Management

Storage Views & Topology Maps
Storage VMotion and SvMotion Snapshots
Conﬁguring VMotion
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Resource Pools and Monitoring
Storage DRS (SDRS)
Host Proﬁles
VSphere 5.1 Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)
Linked Mode Group of vCenter™ Servers

Chapter 12 - Patching and Upgrading vCenter™/ESX/ESXi

Patching ESXi 5.1
Patching with Update Manager
Upgrades and Migrations (ESX to ESXi)
Upgrading from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5x

Chapter 13 - Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment

Site Recovery Manager 5.1 (SRM5)
High Availability (HA) & Fault Domain Manager (FDM)
VM Fault Tolerance
Microsoft Clustering
Backup Strategies
VMware Data Recovery
Third Party Backups

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To be successful on this course you must have some experience of system administration in a Microsoft Windows and/or Linux environment. You must also have at least 1 year of server and infrastructure experience.

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You, and every other student, will be assigned your own dedicated server with 24-hour access during the course. You'll perform all labs on exactly the same hardware you find in a real data centre. This means you can 'get your hands dirty', by revisiting labs and working at your own pace, without time constraints or distractions.

Also, ask us about the one-year of free lab access available.

Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.

Our Certification Programs includes

Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)^TM Delivery
Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software
Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
Examination vouchers *
On site testing **
Accommodation, all meals, unlimited beverages, snacks and tea / coffee***
Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
Examination Passing Policy

Please note

*Examination vouchers are not included for the following courses: PMP, CAPM, CISA, CISM and CISSP CBK Review
**On site testing is not included in our PMP, ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications
***Accommodation not included on the CISSP CBK Review Seminar

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.

Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.

Examination Passing Policy

Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.

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