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VergeOS Partner Training

VergeOS Partner Technical Training

Hands-on technical training for partners architecting, deploying, and operating VergeOS infrastructure.
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About This Program

Section titled “About This Program”

This training portal is a hands-on lab workbook designed for partner engineers who will be architecting, deploying, and operating VergeOS environments for their customers. The program follows a linear progression from foundational concepts through advanced scenario-based labs.

Who Is This For?

Section titled “Who Is This For?”
  • Solutions Architects scoping and designing VergeOS deployments
  • Systems Engineers installing, configuring, and maintaining VergeOS clusters
  • Technical Consultants advising customers on infrastructure modernization
  • Operations Staff monitoring and troubleshooting VergeOS environments

Prerequisites

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  • Hands-on experience with server and network infrastructure
  • Familiarity with virtualization concepts (hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual networking)
  • VMware experience is helpful but not required — VMware Bridge callouts throughout the modules map VergeOS concepts to VMware equivalents
  • Access to bare-metal hardware for lab exercises (or a VergeOS lab environment)

Modules

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The curriculum is organized into 10 modules that progress from architecture fundamentals through real-world deployment scenarios.

1. Architecture Fundamentals HCI vs UCI, VergeFS storage, core fabric networking, clusters and node types.
2. Sizing & Design Hardware requirements, reference architectures, and customer scoping exercises.
3. Installation Bare-metal install, BIOS/disk prep, network prerequisites, and post-install checklist.
4. Networking VergeFabric, VLANs, firewall rules, routing (BGP/OSPF), and network design.
5. Storage vSAN tiers, storage provisioning, NAS configuration, and best practices.
6. Virtual Machines VM creation, recipes, templates, GPU passthrough, and migration workflows.
7. Multi-Tenancy Tenant creation, resource allocation, isolation boundaries, and tenant recipes.
8. Developer / DevOps API, Terraform provider, pyvergeos, PowerShell, automation, and cloud-init.
9. Monitoring & Troubleshooting Dashboard, logs, alerts, common issues, and support escalation.
10. Scenario Labs Deploy HCI/UCI/hybrid topologies and perform VMware migrations using the Terraform playground.

How to Use This Training

Section titled “How to Use This Training”

Each module includes:

  • Concept pages with diagrams, explanations, and VMware Bridge callouts
  • Hands-on lab exercises with step-by-step instructions (early modules) progressing to guided challenges (later modules)
  • Architecture diagrams rendered as Mermaid visualizations you can reference during labs

Start with Module 1: Architecture Fundamentals and work through the modules in order. Each module builds on concepts from previous ones.

Lab Environment

Section titled “Lab Environment”

Labs use a combination of:

  • Your own VergeOS environment on bare-metal hardware for installation and configuration exercises
  • The Terraform Playground for exploring deployment topologies and automation scenarios

Specific environment requirements are listed at the beginning of each lab exercise.