VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage

Course Overview:

This course explores the VMware Infrastructure, which consists of VMware ESX Server & VMware Virtual Center Server.  We will look at both the design environments and operational processes of the VMware Infrastructure. This course provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough issues in server virtualization such as virtual machine technologies, storage infrastructure, and designing clustered environments. Extensive hands-on labs provide for a rich student experience.

Attendees to VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

Date/Time Event
09/29/2025 - 10/03/2025
08:00 -16:00 		VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Virtual Infrastructure Overview
  • ESX and ESXi Server Installation
  • Configuration of Networking, Scalability and Security
  • Storage
  • Install and Configure vCenter Server and Components
  • Creation, Deployment, Management, and Migration of Virtual Machines
  • Utilize vCenter Server  for Resource Management
  • Utilize vCenter Server for Virtual Machine Access Control and User Managment
  • Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
  • Monitoring Your Environment
  • Data & Availability Protection Troubleshooting

  • Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches

  • Use vCenter Server to manage vMotion, HA, DRS and data protection.

Prerequisites:

  • To ensure your success, system administration experience on Microsoft or Linux operating systems is required.

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AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

 

Course Overview:

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms.

TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate cloud technologies and to effectively manage security in the cloud environment.

Attendees to AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

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Course Duration: 5 days

Course Outline:

  • Planning for DevOps
  • Getting started with Source Control
  • Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps
  • Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
  • Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
  • Managing Application Config and Secrets
  • Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
  • Implementing a Container Build Strategy
  • Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
  • Design a Release Strategy
  • Set up a Release Management Workflow
  • Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
  • Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
  • Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
  • Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
  • Azure Deployment Models and Services
  • Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
  • Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure
  • Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
  • Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
  • Optimize feedback mechanisms

Prerequisites :

      • AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
      • Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.

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TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming

 

Course Overview:

The course teaches students to use the sort, grep, sed, & awk utilities within Unix. Systems administrators, Unix users, & programmers benefit from the course showing them how to use the command line applications of sort, grep, sed, & awk commands as well as using sed & awk scripts that develop the users skills with the full power of these utilities.

Attendees to TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 3 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Sorting files by line or field
  • Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
  • Performing non-interactive editing tasks with the sed command
  • Writing simple sed scripts to perform complex editing tasks
  • Using awk variables & arrays to sort data
  • Employing awk programs to manipulate numeric & textual data
  • Performing formatted printing in awk
  • Writing simple awk programs to write reports from data files
  • Using built-in awk functions & defining new functions
  • Write awk programs that make decisions based on numeric or string comparisons (branches & loops)
  • Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
  • Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
  • Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, paste, pr -Lab

Prerequisites:

  • TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux
  • TN 215: Shell Programming.
  • Students should have a basic knowledge of UNIX commands including rm, cp, man, cat, & mkdir. Navigating directory structure using commands such as ls, cp, & pwd. Creating and editing files with the vi editor or text editor. Use of basic programming constructs, & commands such as variables & loops & how to write a simple program in a programming language.

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MS-10231: Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Infrastructure

 

Course Overview:

This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010 (including pre-released versions of the product).

Attendees to MS-10231: Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 Infrastructure will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Location:

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Designing a Logical Architecture
  • Planning Service Application Architecture
  • Planning for Performance and Capacity
  • Designing a Physical Architecture
  • Designing a Security Plan
  • Planning Authentication
  • Planning Managed Metadata
  • Planning Social Computing
  • Designing Enterprise Search Strategy
  • Planning Enterprise Content Management
  • Developing a Plan for Governance
  • Designing a Maintenance and Monitoring Plan

Prerequisites:

  • At least 2 years experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint servers
  • At least one year’s experience of mapping business requirements to logical and physical technical design
  • Working knowledge of network design, including network security

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TN-801: Windows for Security Professionals

Course Overview:

This course will be fast paced with in-depth and live demonstrations.

Date/Locations:

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Duration: 1 day

Course Objectives:

  • UEFI, SecureBoot, TPM, and Enterprise BitLocker
  • Windows VPN in the Enterprise
  • Windows Advanced Firewall
  • Utilizing Windows WMI
  • Administering Windows with Powershell
  • Using Autopsy for Forensics

Prerequisites:

 

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