CiRBA Training & Certification
CiRBA offers customers and consulting partners a variety of training options. Courses address a range of topics including data collection, consolidation and virtualization analysis, and ongoing efficiency analytics.
CiRBA’s technical training courses provide practical, hands-on labs and workshops to ensure graduates are ready to apply the skills and techniques learned in the training in their own environment. Participants will have ongoing access to the material and databases used in the training to further their practice and learning opportunities through continued self-study.
In conjunction with the new training program, CiRBA has launched a new multi-tier partner certification program that combines elements of training, testing, and practical experience. New certification designations are designed to reflect the new service-oriented capabilities approach to training.
Partner Training & Certification Program
Partner training & certification program details, including a schedule of upcoming open enrollment classes, can be found on the Partner Portal.
Customer Training Program
Flexible course options address a range of topics including CiRBA administration, virtualization planning, and ongoing efficiency management. These technical training courses combine instructor -led lectures and discussions with practical, hands-on labs and workshops to ensure graduates are ready to apply the skills and techniques learned in the training in your CiRBA production environment.
Training can also be customized to address your exact requirements. For pricing information and/or to schedule onsite training at your facilities, email us at training@cirba.com.
| COURSE |
AUDIENCE |
DESCRIPTION |
DURATION |
| CiRBA Administration Course |
System administrators for the CiRBA environment who are responsible for deployment and ongoing maintenance of CiRBA servers
System administrators for the target environments who are responsible for auditing and data collection
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This instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills to deploy and maintain CiRBA servers, and to plan, design and implement data collection strategies. Assuming no prior knowledge of CiRBA, this training starts with the basics of CiRBA architecture and deployment options, and progresses to setting up data collection and ongoing monitoring of the CiRBA environment. A significant component of the class is devoted to labs so concepts and skills are reinforced. |
3 days |
| Transformation Analysis |
Technical Analysts responsible for virtualization planning and analysis |
This instructor-led course provides participants with foundational knowledge of CiRBA analytics and the skills to plan a virtualization analysis to transform infrastructure quickly, safely and cost-effectively. Using a VMware P2V analysis scenario, students are guided through a six step ‘best practices’ analysis process and pre-packaged templates to assess the migration of target physical servers to virtual machines.
Assuming no prior knowledge of CiRBA, this class starts with a level-set of the advantages and benefits of using Data Center Intelligence software, and quickly progresses to an end-to-end P2V analysis and deep dive examination of the prepackaged analysis templates, tuning parameters, and outputs. The training concludes with a guided P2V analysis team workshop to reinforce the analysis concepts and skills learned.
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3 days |
| Efficiency Management |
Capacity Planners who have completed the Transformation Analysis training course, and who have some practical experience using CiRBA analysis |
This instructor-led course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to use Data Center Intelligence to provide continuous right-sizing of IT environments through policy-driven analyses of detailed configuration, business, and utilization data.
This course builds on the foundational knowledge and skills developed in the Transformation Analysis course. The training starts with a refresher of the concepts and features that drive CiRBA analytics, and quickly progresses to a detailed examination of forward-looking trend projections, system health and white-space analysis, and determining optimal workload placements of VMs determination.
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3 days |
| Exploring Data |
Stakeholders who want to learn and understand CiRBA reports and dashboards
Note: The contents of this course are also covered in the Transformation Analysis course; that is, if you take the Transformation Analysis course you do not need to take the Exploring Data course.
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This instructor-led course introduces participants to the basics of navigating the CiRBA web UI and provides familiarity with using various reports and dashboards to examine the data that has been captured through auditing.
Assuming no prior knowledge of CiRBA, this class starts with a level-set of the advantages and benefits of using Data Center Intelligence software, and quickly progresses to hands-on exploration of the features and functionality available to examine technical, business attribute, and resource utilization data. |
1 day |
| Rules & Analysis Template Design Course |
Technical Analysts who are responsible for architecting virtualization solutions, who have completed the Transformation Analysis training course, and who have some practical experience using CiRBA analysis
Detailed knowledge of at least one hardware platform and/or virtualization technology is required
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Graduates of the Transformation Analysis course can expand their CiRBA analytics skills by learning how to create and publish custom, complex rule definitions using Ruleset Designer functionality and CiRBA Central.
This F2F course also teaches participants how to prepare an Analysis Package that includes the rules, templates, and server models required to address a transformational analysis use case.
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1 day
(per use case) |
Online Training
The CiRBA Online Deployment and Data Collection Training Program offers an online independent study curriculum that enables technical resources to acquire skills required to deploy CiRBA servers; and to plan, design and implement data collection strategies. The program consists of several courses, each containing one or more modules. This modular approach provides flexibility in how resources approach the training.
Courses:
- Deploying CiRBA Servers
- Configuring Audits
- Data Collection Methods for Windows Environments
- Data Collection Methods for UNIX Environments
- Data Collection Methods for VI3 Environments
- Importing Data Using Integration Toolkits
- Collecting Business Attribute Data
- Data Validation
- Managing Audited systems
For inquires about the program, please contact training@cirba.com.
Lunch & Learn Webcasts
Join a CiRBA expert for an in-depth look at a key CiRBA product feature during our monthly series of "Lunch & Learn"
training Webcasts. There is no charge to attend.
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