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.
Hands-On VMware vSphere
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 vSphere training is for you.
For customers already using VMware’s previous generation of infrastructure, VI-3, we cover best- practices for migrating to vSphere - potentially, with no virtual machine downtime.
You'll Learn:
- Overview of the core vSphere components
- Selecting server, networking and storage hardware
- ESX server sizing & cluster capacity planning
- Cluster best practices for HA, DRS & FT
- Storage & network architecture best-practices
- Deploying vCenter 4 & ESXi 4
- Monitoring performance
- Operating & administering vSphere
- VM backup and recovery with snapshots
Advanced VMware vSphere
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. Weʼll tackle performance, availability and operational best-practices for VMware vSphere.
You'll Learn:
- Common Misconfigurations: Storage, Network, HA, DRS, FT & vCenter
- Understanding vCPU Scheduling & Memory Allocation
- Monitoring CPU, Memory, Network & Storage Performance at the ESX & Virtual Machine Layers
- Building High-Performance Virtual Machines
- Recovering ESX Hosts & Virtual Machines
Hands-On VMware View (Virtual Desktop)
Our 3-day Hands-On View class covers virtual desktop concepts, architecture, implementation, operations and administration.
You'll Learn:
- Integration with virtual infrastructure components
- Selecting server, networking and storage hardware
- Sizing & capacity planning
- OS licensing concepts
- Deployment scenarios with & View Composer
- OS patching & upgrades
- Active Directory considerations
- Deploying Microsoft Office with ThinApp
Hands-On NetApp
In this class, you'll learn all of the inʼs-and-outʼs of architecting, deploying and administering VMware VI-3 & vSphere on NetApp storage.
You'll Learn:
- About Data ONTAP
- RAID groups, volumes, LUNs & flexible containers
- De-duplication
- Snapshots
- NFS, iSCSI, fibre channel
- Raw-device mapping
- Multi-pathing
- Preparing for disaster recovery