Want to work smarter with Visual Studio? This series of tips and tricks are each less than a minute long, so you can transform your Visual Studio workflow in your spare moments. Learn how to use Tabify and Untabify to fix inconsistent spacing, use multiple carets to select and edit text, and rename classes and namespaces to match file and folder names. Discover how to refactor If statements and get a file path from the editor tab. Plus, see how to clone the Solution Explorer window to quickly do a side-by-side comparison of project structures across projects.

Discover tips and techniques that can make working in Microsoft Visual Studio simpler, faster, and more interesting. In this course designed for .NET developers, Walt Ritscher shines a spotlight on helpful shortcuts and productivity boosters for Visual Studio. He dives into a variety of topics, including filtering views, using custom keyboard commands, grouping files with tabs, duplicating code, and previewing files. Plus, learn about helpful extensions that augment the power of Visual Studio.

Prefer working with an IDE instead of the command line? Discover how to use Git, the defacto distributed source control tool, effectively within Visual Studio. Throughout this course, instructor Walt Ritscher delves into the mapping between Git and GitHub commands and the tools in Visual Studio. After going over key Git concepts, commands, and GUI tools, Walt shows how to initialize a new repository with PowerShell, Visual Studio, and GitHub. He then shows how to add, rename, move and delete files; add a remote repository; clone and fork a repository; and view and handle merge conflicts. Plus, see how to work with branches, create, review and compare pull requests, and more.

The first step to leadership is self-awareness. In this hands-on leadership course, instructor Nevada Lane provides an effective and fun way to build self-awareness through visualization. First, Nevada helps you to identify life events that influenced your development and growth as a leader. She asks you to identify people who have inspired you and to articulate the core principles that drive your own leadership approach. Next, Nevada walks you through identifying your leadership strengths and values. She shows you how to state a vision for what you want to create or how you want to be. Then Nevada encourages you to identify a quote that summarizes an aspect of your values, principles, or vision. She has you pull all these pieces together and build a leadership story graphic. In conclusion, she helps you to identify ways to use your leadership journey graphic, including sharing it with others.

VMware NSX is the most disruptive network technology in recent memory. Demand for employees who understand NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, VMware Certified Instructor Rick Crisci helps you understand all the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. Rick begins with basic networking. He covers networking fundamentals like the OSI model, Layer 2 switching, and maximum transmission units (MTU). Rick goes into ethernet broadcasts, the spanning tree protocol (STP), and base IP standards. He also discusses virtual networking basics like the vSphere standard switches and distributed switches. This course helps you prepare for the VMware VCP-NV exam. To take the VCP-NV exam, you will need to complete some course requirements from VMware. Be sure to check those requirements, as well, as you prepare to get certified.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware NSX is the most disruptive network technology in recent memory. Demand for employees who understand NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, VMware Certified Instructor Rick Crisci helps you understand all the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. This course highlights management and transport nodes in a vSphere environment. Rick walks you through managing NSX-T with the management plane, the control plane, and the data plane. He explains the architecture and Controller concepts for NSX, then goes over Controller plane sharding. Rick shows you each step in preparing transport nodes for NSX-T, including a useful demo of configuring hosts and VMkernel ports for NSX-T. He concludes with a discussion of uplinks and teaming. This course helps you prepare for the VMware VCP-NV exam.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Demand for employees who understand VMware NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci steps through each of the key concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. In this installment, Rick shines a spotlight on logical switching. Learn how logical switching is done within NSX-T, explore the integration between vSphere 7 and NSX-T, review the tables that make up the control plane of the N-VDS Layer 2 segments, and more. Along the way, Rick provides demos that showcase how these concepts function in the real world.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Continue your journey towards mastering the fundamentals of VMware NSX—one of the most disruptive network technologies in recent memory. In this installment of the VMware NSX-T 3.0 Essential Training series, Rick Crisci steps through each of the key concepts behind routing in NSX-T 3.0. Learn about logical routing; design options for routing with NSX-T; how to work with active-active services routers; Edge nodes and how to run network services that cannot be distributed; and more. Along the way, Rick provides demos that showcase how these concepts function in the real world.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware NSX is one of the most disruptive network technologies in recent memory. Demand for employees who understand NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series, Rick Crisci helps you understand the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. Along the way, he shares practical demos that show how each concept functions in the real world. In this installment of the series, Rick delves into edge services. Learn the basics of how Layer 2 bridging can be used to extend an NSX-T Layer 2 segment into a VLAN. Review the basics of network address translation, how to set up your tier-1 gateway in active-standby, how to use IPsec VPN (and which gateways to use), and more.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

The VMware NSX-T 3.0 Essential Training series was designed to help professionals grasp the key concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. In this installment, Rick Crisci dives into the topic of security in a vSphere environment, sharing practical demos along the way. Learn how to set up a basic firewall in NSX-T, as well as a firewall for a three-tier application. Plus, discover which network introspection services work with NSX-T, how NSX-T can provide endpoint protection to virtual machines, and more. This course can also prepare you for the VMware VCP-NV exam.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware NSX is one of the most disruptive network technologies in recent memory. In this series, VMware Certified Instructor Rick Crisci helps you understand the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. Along the way, he shares practical demos that show how each concept functions in the real world. In this installment, Rick focuses on the topic of installation in a vSphere environment. Learn about NSX-T 3, and explore the minor differences between version 3 and 2.4. Review the prerequisites that you must complete before installing NSX manager, as well as how to approach the actual installation process. Plus, learn how to add a compute manager to the NSX Manager. This course can also prepare you for the VMware VCP-NV exam.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real-world demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on vSphere networking. Rick reviews the foundations of virtual networking, then goes into standard switches, distributed switches, distributed port groups, and how to integrate vSphere 7 with NSX-T 3.0. He shows you how to configure security settings, NIC teaming and failover policies, and traffic shaping for distributed port groups. Rick steps through migrating VMs to a vSphere 7 distributed switch and verifying your network configuration. He concludes with detailed looks at Network IO, private VLANs, port mirroring, and netflow.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real life demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on the tools and techniques that you can use to manage storage in a virtualized environment. Rick gives you an overview of storage architecture options, then introduces you to storage technologies such as VMFS and NFS datastores and iSCSI storage. He steps through expanding your datastore and explains how to use dependent hardware and independent hardware for iSCSI and ESXi 7. Rick covers storage DRS, then goes in-depth on vSAN architecture, disk groups, configuration, and more.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real-world demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on monitoring tools in vSphere. Rick explains the vSphere CPU scheduler and memory virtualization. He demonstrates performance charts and steps through how to use ESXTOP to monitor an ESXi 7 host.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real-world demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on securing a vSphere deployment. Rick provides an overview of vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) and explains proper configuration, and also discusses the purpose of vSphere Identity Federation, setting up roles and permissions, and securing your VMs against attacks. Rick also shows how to set up an ESXi firewall and how to activate lockdown mode to ensure that all of your ESXi traffic is coming from the Command Center. Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real-world demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on the process of updating and upgrading your vSphere 7 software. As Rick explains, the best way to learn about updating the software is to build your own home lab and carry out installations and upgrades. Rick shows how to use the update planner to keep your updates in priority order. He also shares some of the specifications from his own home lab for you to try out. He then demos upgrading processes for VMware tools, virtual hardware, ESXi, and the vCenter Server Appliance Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. In order to stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real life demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on resource management. Rick introduces you to configuring reservations and limits in vSphere and setting up shared resources. He demonstrates how you can use hotplug settings to alter the number of CPUs and memory that a VM has without turning it off. He steps you through resource pools, scalable shares, and expandable reservations, then concludes with a demo of how to create and configure vApps for multitier applications. Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. To stay relevant, you must understand vSphere. Perhaps you’re also preparing to take the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci, a VMware Certified Instructor, walks you through over 50 real life demos in a vSphere 7 environment using the HTML5 vSphere Client. This course focuses specifically on the distributed resource scheduler (DRS) in VMware vSphere. Rick explains some changes and improvements to the DRS in vSphere 7. He shows you how to create a DRS cluster, then goes over CPU over-commitment, scalable shares, and other settings to fine-tune your deployment. Rick demonstrates distributed power management (DPM), migrating hosts and resource pools to a DRS cluster, monitoring a DRS cluster, and configuring advanced settings. He concludes by discussing how you can avoid downtime with DRS maintenance mode. Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. Nonvirtualized data centers are a thing of the past; in order to stay relevant—and scale infrastructure to meet business needs—you must understand vSphere. vSphere 6.7 Foundations is an eight-part series designed for anyone who wants to learn vSphere, including absolute beginners, and develop the knowledge to pass the VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations exam (2V0-01.19). In this course, instructor Rick Crisci explains how to administer availability in vSphere and vCenter. Learn how to use heartbeats, configure high availability, set up file backup in vCSA, and configure a fault tolerant environment.

This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware vSphere is everywhere. Nonvirtualized data centers are a thing of the past; in order to stay relevant—and scale infrastructure to meet business needs—you must understand vSphere. vSphere 6.7 Foundations is an eight-part series designed for anyone who wants to learn vSphere, including absolute beginners, and develop the knowledge to pass the VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations exam (2V0-01.19). In this course, instructor Rick Crisci reviews the essentials of configuring and installing vSphere 6.7 and components such as vCSA and ESXi. Plus, learn how to use the Update Manager to keep vSphere up to date.

This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.