IVOXY Consulting, VMware’s number one consulting partner in the Pacific Northwest, invites you to join us for a training experience like no other. We won’t bore you with PowerPoint, we don’t waste your time covering IT basics, and we guarantee that you’ll leave with real world expertise that you can use the very next day.
“I thought this was one of the most informative classes we have ever attended. We actually made a design change after returning from class.”
Donald F. Wood, State of Washington Dept. Of Labor & Industries
Go Deep
We don’t offer “bootcamp” training. We just don’t see the value in skimming complex subject matter to cram for a test. Our training takes a different approach - we take the time to explain and explore core topics that will make your break your virtual infrastructure. You’ll get hands-on, real-world answers about networking, storage, security, and reliability.
Because we don’t teach from a slide deck, our trainers can tailor each class to you needs and interests. With our small class sizes, we’ll make sure you get your questions answered. Want to dig into a specific configuration or problem you’ve run across? Just ask, and we’ll be glad to help.
Expert Trainers
As one of VMware’s top consulting partners in the country, we are uniquely positioned to offer world-class training. Our classes are taught exclusively by our team of VCP-certified senior engineers. We don’t just teach this material - we implement it everyday.
When they’re not teaching, IVOXY senior engineers are onsite with customers, architecting and implementing enterprise-grade solutions. Our real-world experience gets incorporated into our classes, allowing us to teach the most up-to-date information. Our extensive experience across diverse server, storage, and networking platforms allows us to answer even the toughest questions.
Get Real
Talking about theory and best practices is a great way to learn, but nothing replaces hands-on experience. That’s why each of our classes has full access to an on-site lab full of fast, modern hardware. You’ll get to build up, tear down, break and fix a real-world VMware infrastructure, including SANs and networking.
Forget classes with canned demos and slow remote servers. We have a room full of modern enterprise-class equipment right down the hall. You can bring your laptop, or use ours - it’s up to you. We’ll provide everything you need to get the most out of your time with us.
We’ll See You After Class
You don’t stop learning when you leave the classroom, so we don’t stop teaching. Every attendee gets unlimited access to our training portal. Using the award-winning Basecamp software from 37signals, IVOXY engineers and trainers frequently update the site with articles, white papers, how-tos, and links to the best virtualization content on the web. We dig through forums, bulletin boards, and marketing fluff to find practical, hands-on information to keep you up to date.
With our portal, you’ll never be more than a click away from a library full of answers.
We Hear You
We think pretty highly of our training, but don’t just take our word for it. Our customers tell us that our classes are “incredible", “impressive”, “very helpful”, and “well worth the money”. As if that wasn’t praise enough, our instructors have been called “knowledgeable”, “personable”, “funny”, and “excellent”. One customer even said that a trainer of ours “defined a new level of IT training - absolutely brilliant”.
After every training our instructors read every evaluation form, and incorporate feedback into future sessions. We want to make sure that the classes we deliver are simply the best VMware training you can attend. In fact, we’re so confidant that you’ll leave with a greater understanding of how to build and maintain a Virtual Infrastructure, that if you’re not completely satisfied with our training we’ll give you your money back.
Ready To Go?
We offer a variety of trainings for you to choose from. All of our trainings are hands-on, dynamic, and engaging experiences. Choose the one that sounds right for you, and sign up online.
Virtual Infrastructure Headstart
Are you new to VMware? Got your feet wet with VMware Workstation or Fusion, and ready to take it to the Enterprise? Or maybe you've even built a Virtual Infrastructure, but you want to dig into best practices and performance tuning. If so, our hands-on VMware Headstart is for you.
You'll Learn:
- Virtual Infrastructure Architecture and Design
- Analyzing Virtualization Readyness
- Sizing and Capacity Planning
- Installation and Configuration of VMware Virtual Infrastrucure
- Storage Sizing, Design, and Configuration
- Networking for Virtual Infrastructure
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Performance Tuning
- Troubleshooting
Advanced Virtual Networking with Cisco
Networking a Virtual Infrastructure can be difficult and confusing. Join us while we dig deep into advanced topics that most classes skip entirely. This expert-level class is for VMware Administrators and Networking Professionals wanting to successfully integrate VMware in their environment.
You'll Learn:
- 802.1q, 802.3ad and EtherChannel concepts
- Load-balancing virtual machine traffic with layer 2 and layer 3 hashing
- Architectural best-practices integrating ESX hosts with Catalyst-series switches
- Fault-tolerant features of the ESX operating system
- Network performance monitoring
- Troubleshooting network connectivity
Advanced Performance Tuning for Virtual Infrastructure
Our one-day, hands-on tuning course covers all facets of Virtual Infrastructure 3 performance tuning. This course provides a complete end-to-end review of VMware’s CPU, memory, storage and networking tunables, and how to get the best performance out of VI-3.
Attendees will learn how to tune CPU, memory, networking and storage for Virtual Infrastructure 3. Users will learn best-practices for managing, monitoring and troubleshooting ESX and virtual machine performance.
You'll Learn:
- Common Performance Issues
- ESX Performance Parameters
- ESX Networking Tuning
- Storage Tuning (NAS & SAN)
- VMFS Performance
- CPU & Memory Performance
- vCPU to pCPU Scheduling
- Capacity Planning
Advanced Disaster Recovery Planning & Design
Our one-day, hands-on course offers a deep-dive into the recovery of virtual infrastructure.
This class delivers real-world experience in planning, architecting and implementing disaster recovery of VMware VI-3 infrastructure and virtual machines.
Attendees will learn how to protect and recover virtual infrastructure using VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) solution for VI-3.
We’ll cover the planning, implementation and execution of virtualized DR/BC, complete with a hands-on lab deployment.
You'll Learn:
- Virtual RTO/RPO Considerations
- Authoring a Protection Plan
- Authoring a Recovery Plan
- Virtual DR Prerequisites
- Deploying Site Recovery Manager
- Testing the Recovery Plan
- DR Recovery: Managing Fail-Back