VMware Hands-on Learning & Trials

See how to reduce the complexity of cloud administration and content management.

Deploy a private cloud and connect it to an Azure Virtual Network and access vCenter for Azure VMware Solution private cloud.

Download, deploy and configure VMware HCX on-premises, including all its components.

This is an introductory lab focused on Google Cloud VMware Engine, where you will create a private cloud, migrate workloads, and configure additional services.

See how cloud adoption can be made fast and easy with value optimization of existing on-premises infrastructure.

This lab is an overview of Dockers and Kubernetes and is demonstrating the Kubernetes capability which is available with vSphere with Tanzu. This lab is using vSphere with Tanzu for hosting Kubernetes. In this lab we will introduce the basic concepts of containers in general and docker in particular. We will look at how to implement a simple application in docker and how to use container networking and docker volumes. We will also introduce the concept of container management with a brief overview of Kubernetes. We will briefly touch on the VMware Tanzu portfolio of products and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) which is the underlying platform upon which this labs docker and kubernetes platform is utilizing. Lastly we will take a quick tour of some of the free educational resources which VMware provides for learning about Kubernetes and the Tanzu Portfolio, Introduction to VMware Learning Platform & Kube Academy and Introduction to TechZone.

Explore an overview of Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (TKO) diving into some of the many use cases for TKO. to VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (TKO) simplifies and secures the container lifecycle to speed the delivery of modern apps at scale and addresses the operational requirements for security, visibility, and manageability across clouds. It provides a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment, scaling, and management with tools, automation, and data-driven insights.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform is a single, end-to-end integrated platform solution that enables companies to build and deploy more software, more quickly and securely, through a rich set of developer tooling and a pre-paved path to production. This lab focuses on platform engineers and how they can provide application teams with self-service access to security-approved environments & tools that provide seamless onboarding, learning and consistency across projects. In addition, the lab highlights the role of platform engineers in offering application teams with security-approved, language specific (golden) paths enabling developers to rapidly build & deploy apps/APIs to production.

VMware vSphere 8 includes the next generation of Tanzu Kubernetes. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 makes it possible for customers to transform their existing virtual compute infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes operating model that extends across data centers and clouds.

Learn the basics of vSphere components that support Kubernetes functionality and the process of enabling Kubernetes on a vSphere cluster.

See how to deploy Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, and learn establishing connectivity to native Oracle Cloud services and on-premises vSphere environments and using HCX to migrate workloads between environments.

Explore VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer to easily apply load balancing and web application firewalls to any application.

Technical documentation and guides to make your evaluation for App Volumes successful. 

Multi-cloud management platform with centralized views and controls powered by cloud-scale, graph-based data store technology.

Learn about our Next-Generation Anti-Virus, and behavioral Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution.

Explore the platform for managing VMs and orchestrating containers, built on full-stack hyper-converged infrastructure.

Learn the tools that help automate your VMware Cloud on AWS environment.

Explore the VMware Cloud on AWS console and SDDC details.

Deploy VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension to the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and the on-premises data center.

Deploy a Software-Defined Data Center in VMware Cloud on AWS and configure connectivity and networking settings.

Explore the two comprehensive cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions for the protection of vSphere workloads in on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS environments. 

Access the technical documentation and installation guides to unlock the full potential of vSphere Hypervisor. 

Download and use the free personal use license available with a valid MyVMware account. 

Experience the easiest way to run Windows on a Mac and the ultimate tool for building apps to run on any platform.

Explore VMware Horizon's secure cloud-based virtual desktop/app delivery empowering distributed work. Learn to transition from legacy endpoint management in this lab.

Explore a modern platform for running and delivering virtual desktops and apps across the hybrid cloud.

Take the assessment to make better cost decisions as you migrate workloads to private and public clouds.

Experience how to build a production-ready developer cloud. 

Get the opportunity to learn Global Server Load Balancing features of VMware NSX Adv. Load Balancer and modules that cover cross-site high availability and location awareness.

Explore how you can apply load balancing and web application firewalls easily to any application.

Explore 7 modules focusing on getting started with the NSX-T platform, showing administrators how to configure network and security settings.

Technical documentation, installation demos and classes to make your NSX-T evaluation a success.

Get introduced to all features of SD-WAN that incorporates a distributed network of service gateways deployed at top tier cloud data centers. 

Check out the new features, failover virtual machines, plan a data center migration, and execute a disaster recovery plan.

Explore the business continuity and disaster recovery solution that helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines.

Learn how proactive support helps avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests.

Explore an orchestrator that accelerates time-to-market for network functions and services while igniting operational agility through unified automation.

Discover how to virtualize applications and start them without requiring installation.

Access detailed product documentation and technical white papers to make your evaluation a success.

Discover the advantages of network traffic pattens analysis, NSX micro-segmentation recommendations and network performance optimization. 

This introductory lab demonstrates the core features and functions of vSphere and vCenter. This is an excellent place to begin your experience with VMware vSphere.

Explore the vRealize Automation self-service portal, and take a walk through a catalog request, demonstrating the approval process and investigate a deployment.

Learn first-hand how to simplify your cloud experience with the modern automation platform. 

Experience how VMware Aria Operations for Logs delivers real-time log management for VMware environments.

Take the first few steps in your journey to becoming a log guru start with a basic understanding of the Aria Operations for Logs layout. Also learn how to use the Log Explorer for some basic log queries, and view some default dashboards to understand how log data is presented. Use all that knowledge to do some troubleshooting and move onto more advanced topics.

Explore how Aria Operations for Networks delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security.

See how VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security to help IT maximize their NSX investments.

Learn how to create, share, and manage dashboards in vRealize Log Insight.

Meet our cloud team in this demo as they use VMware Cloud Foundation to quickly provide resources to developers and meet application SLAs. 

Discover new assessments, features and metrics, identify transient issues and more.

Take the opportunity to play and display your skills and brag about them, completing the six tasks in the lab within 30 minutes.

Explore vRealize Operations Manager and discover how to optimize VM performance, troubleshoot and more!

Get introduced to vRealize Operations and all the Home Navigation options.

Evaluate VMware Aria Operations and explore capabilities of self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Learn how to run production operations hands-off and hassle-free with self-driving operations.

Explore how to extend VMware vRealize Operations Manager functionality to monitor and manage VMware Horizon environments. 

Challenge your skills and showcase your vSAN expertise.

Deploying vSAN ESA using VMware's "QuickStart" guided cluster creation wizard to streamline the creation of a production-ready vSAN Express Storage Architecture, vSAN's newest all-NVMe architecture..

Access comprehensive, up-to-date technical resources to help make your vSAN evaluation a success.

Explore the components and capabilities within vSAN 8 - VMware's market-leading HCI platform. This lab covers: Storage Policy-Based Management & Availability Performance and Capacity Monitoring & Management Operations & Lifecycle Management Data Encryption & Security

This lab, HOL-2409-22-SDC, vSphere Performance Testing of Workloads, has 3 modules. The first module discusses performance analysis of vCenter Server. Modules 2 & 3 cover two benchmarks, DVD Store and Weathervane, that can be used to measure the performance of database and application workloads respectively.

This lab, HOL-2409-23-SDC - vSphere Performance Testing of ESXi Host Subsystems, has a lot of content, broken down into modules. First, you'll learn about esxtop, a command-line tool you can on an individual ESXi host to monitor subsystems like CPU, memory, disk, and networking. Modules 2 through 5 focus on these subsystems and additional tools and guidance to ensure the performance of your vSphere environment is optimal.

Get hands-on with PowerCLI and dive deeper with real-world examples.

Learn how VMware and hardware vendors’ partnership help offload and accelerate I/O and security functions to cards with DPUs, thereby increasing overall system performance capacity in a cost-efficient manner.

Take on the tasks to challenge your knowledge on vSphere. 

Learn how to improve availability including Content Library, Distributed Switches, Storage, Lifecycle Manager and more. 

Explore the efficient and secure hybrid cloud platform that gets you the best performance and availability out of your infrastructure and applications.

Challenge your skills and showcase your vSphere expertise.

Get the overview of the new features in vSphere including installs, upgrades, backups, user interface, and the CLI.

Get the overview of new features in vSphere. Explore improvements and features in ESXi and vCenter Server management and lifecycle.

This lab provides tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of vSphere 8.0, and shows how to right-size VMs for your particular environment, so resources are not under or overprovisioned.

Explore new security features of vSphere including the TPM 2.0 for ESXi, Virtual TPM 2.0 for VMs, and Microsoft Virtualization Security.

Learn Workspace ONE UEM fundamentals for device management, policy distribution, powerful workflows, secure access, and insightful reports.

Free local virtualization solution for Windows and Linux.

Explore industry standard desktop hypervisor for running virtual machines on Linux or Windows PCs. 

Evaluate self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments in a unified, AI-powered platform.