Summer School, cost effective web-based training on managing your VMware environment.

Work schedules and the need to be ‘on the job’ have made it increasingly difficult for people to justify attendance at training courses. In recognition of this we’ve come up with a short sharp high intensity training class in performance and capacity management of VMware environments. The aim is to try to give you as much of the ‘classroom experience’ as we can, without the down side of attending a formal scheduled class.

The training is delivered as four one hour web-based training sessions on July12 and 26 and August 9 and 23. Meetings, meeting, meetings and other job commitments mean you can’t always make it to a session.  If work schedules mean you have to skip a session don’t worry - you can catch up by listening to the recording at any time up to two weeks after the class.

What makes us uniquely qualified to deliver this course?

We’ve worked with VMware as both a technology and consulting partner, including provision of VMware branded consulting on a sub-contract basis. We’ve provided our ITIL accredited Capacity Management training course for VMware capacity management staff and we’ve also worked with VMware to create the Capacity Management Service Acceleration Kit for use by VMware re-sellers worldwide.  Add to that several years providing webinars for the public and free training for our Athene users across the web, and we have a good skill set in delivering information this way.

You’ll be taught to identify headroom for additional VMs in a Cluster, Dynamic Resource Scheduling, setting up Resource Pools, VMware KPI’s, identifying Idle and Oversized VMs, the best way to present reports to end-users and much more. You will be able to identify common performance and capacity issues with VMware and implement a structured approach to resolving them. Our aim is to help you understand and manage the interaction of key system components and see through issues masking the root cause of a problem and resolve that root cause.

So who should come along to our Summer School? Well our class has been designed for anyone who has an interest in ensuring good performance of their VMware systems and anyone who has ever encountered a performance problem with VMware.

You won’t need more than a basic understanding of VMware concepts and architecture to derive benefit from the class and all concepts, advice and recommendation are ‘product agnostic’ and don’t rely on any non-standard VMware or third party tools being available.

Our Summer School suits both VMware specific staff and those who need to know more to help in their own sphere of influence, even though they’re not specifically VMware technicians.

You’ll probably get most from the course  if you’re working in areas such as VMware system administration, performance management, capacity management, infrastructure management, network administration, database administration and application support

So if you’d like to enhance your ability to identify VMware performance issues and tune your environment to provide better levels of service why not sign up now.

http://www.metron-athene.com/training/summer_school/index.html

We’re always looking to enhance the ways in which we deliver information to people – feel free to respond with your thoughts on the validity of this on-line training approach.

Andrew Smith

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

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