VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.5 to V6.7] (VCP3)
Virtualization, VMware
In this three-day, hands-on training course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter Server® 6.7 and VMware ESXi™ 6.7. Real-world use-case deployment scenarios, hands-on lab exercises, and lectures will teach you the skills that you need to effectively implement and configure VMware vSphere® 6.7. This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 6.7 into their existing vSphere environment.
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Storage Management
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Describe new storage features, including VMFS-5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, virtual machine storage policies, VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™, and VMware® Virtual SAN™
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Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®, solid-state drive support, and VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration
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Upgrade VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
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Create user-defined storage capabilities and virtual machine storage policies
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Scalability
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Describe vSphere Storage DRS and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
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Create a datastore cluster
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Configure vSphere Storage DRS
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Availability
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Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™
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Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Replication
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Describe the enhancements to vSphere HA
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Monitor vSphere HA cluster activity
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VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives
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Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create and export an image profile
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Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision an ESXi host
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Course Introduction
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Introductions and course logistics
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Course goals and objectives
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Online vSphere resources
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Location of online vSphere documentation
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Introduction to vSphere 6
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Discuss vSphere 6 feature enhancements
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Discuss vSphere 6 installation and upgrade differences
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Describe and apply ESXi lockdown mode
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Discuss and apply ESXi account management
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Discuss the integration and benefits of VMware vCloud® Air™
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vCenter Server 6
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Discuss the new features and benefits of vCenter Server 6
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Use the new installation process to deploy vCenter Server
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Apply vCenter Server configuration maximums
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Use Platform Services Controller to manage system services
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Use VMware Certificate Authority and VMware Endpoint Certificate Services to manage certificate lifecycles
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Use the vSphere Web Client to apply enhanced performance configurations
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Virtual Machine Enhancements
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Use virtual hardware version 11 enhancements to virtual machines in the vSphere 6 release
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Management Enhancements
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Discuss VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control features
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Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and Network I/O Control version 3
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Apply virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
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Describe IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment
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Storage Enhancements
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Define key storage security enhancements made to the storage stack supported by vSphere 6
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Discuss changes in lease management, share reservation, and authentication Remote Procedure Call authentication brought by the vSphere NFS 4.1 client for datastores
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Describe and apply disk and storage bandwidth configuration to improve performance
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Describe the differences between VMware Virtual SAN™ version 1 and Virtual SAN version 2
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Create virtual machine storage policies
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Create fault domains
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Describe the ways that Virtual Volumes changes how virtual machine storage is presented and managed
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Create, discover, and connect to storage containers
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7 Network Enhancements
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Discuss Network I/O Control features
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Describe changes between Network I/O Control version 2 and version 3
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Discuss virtual machine and distributed switch bandwidth configuration changes to increase performance
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Discuss IPv6 use cases in the vSphere environment
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Scalability Enhancements
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Discuss and apply vSphere DRS enhancements
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Discuss and apply vSphere Storage DRS enhancements
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Availability Enhancements
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Configure cross-vCenter Server system migration
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Discuss multiprocessor fault tolerance features in vSphere 6
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Discuss enhancements to App HA in vSphere 6
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Course Introduction
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Introductions and course logistics
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Course objectives
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Management Enhancements
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Differentiate the vSphere clients
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Use vSphere Client to view the vSphere environment
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Use VMware Host Client to view the vSphere environment
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Describe the vSphere 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7 enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance
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Describe how to back up and restore vCenter Server Appliance
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Explain how to patch vCenter Server Appliance
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Describe the new features of vSphere 6.7
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Summarize the purpose of content libraries in a vSphere environment
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Discuss the vSphere requirements for content libraries
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Create a local content library
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Subscribe to a published content library
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Deploy virtual machines from a content library
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Describe how vCenter Server High Availability works
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Describe how VMware Platform Services Controller™ high availability works
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Configure vCenter Server High Availability
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vCenter Architecture Upgrade and Migration
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Describe the new architecture features of vCenter Server
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Choose between a distributed configuration and an embedded configuration, based on your requirements
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Determine the appropriate upgrade path for a vCenter Server deployment
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Upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server 6.7
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Determine the appropriate migration path for a vCenter Server deployment
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Describe the new migration features of vCenter Server 6.7
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Migrate Windows vCenter Server 5.5 to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
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ESXI Upgrade and Enhancements
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Determine the appropriate upgrade method for an ESXi host
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Describe the procedure for upgrading an ESXi 5.5, 6.0, or 6.5 host to an ESXi 6.7 host
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Discuss the enhancements to vSphere 6.5 scalability and performance
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Discuss the additional features to support hot-plug and SMART solid-state drives
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Describe the new capabilities of host profiles introduced in vSphere 6.5
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Describe the vSphere 6.7 Quick Boot feature
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Describe the VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ EAM integration
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Virtual Machine Enhancements
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Discuss how virtual hardware 11, 13, and 14 extend virtual machine resource configurations
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Describe how the VMXNET3 adapter optimizes network traffic
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Discuss how hot-add memory is distributed across NUMA nodes in vSphere 6.x
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Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Integrated Containers™
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Storage Enhancements
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Describe vSphere 6.x support for NFS
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Describe the VMFS6 datastore
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Describe the upgrade procedure from VMFS5 to VMFS6
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Describe the VMFS6 enhancements in vSphere 6.7
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Describe the benefits of using virtual volumes
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Describe per-virtual machine, policy-based policy management
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Describe how VMDK data operations are offloaded to storage arrays through VMware vSphere® API for Storage Awareness™
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Describe how VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ is used with Windows Server Failover Clustering
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Describe the VMware vSAN™ enhancements in the following areas: scalability, performance, availability, space efficiency, operation, usability
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Describe the interoperability enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
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Describe the enhancements to vSphere Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control that improve adherence to configured maximums and reservations
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Security Enhancements
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Discuss the improvements to lockdown settings
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Describe the addition of smart-card authentication
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Explain the changes that enhance user accountability
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Plan for secure boot support for ESXi hosts
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Describe the security enhancements
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Deploy enhanced vCenter Server events and alarms and vSphere logging
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Describe the vSphere 6.7 features for monitoring vCenter Server Appliance
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Use encryption in your vSphere environment
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Encrypt virtual machines
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Explain how to back up encrypted virtual machines
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Encrypt core dumps
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Enable encrypted vSphere vMotion migration
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Describe the virtual TPM feature in vSphere 6.7
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List the core security modules that are part of VMware Platform Services Controller™
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List the VMware certificate management components
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Describe certificate use changes in vSphere 6.0
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Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Certificate Authority component
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Describe the primary services provided by the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store component
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Define VMware CA certificate replacement options
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Describe ESXi certificate replacement options
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Discuss certificate-based guest authentication
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Network Enhancements
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Use Network I/O Control
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Upgrade Network I/O Control to version 3
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Enable network resource management on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
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Configure bandwidth allocation for system and virtual machine traffic based on shares and reservation
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Discuss IPv6 support in vSphere 6.0
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Explain how the gateway per vmknic feature works and how it is configured
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Explain the new ERSPAN headers supported in vSphere 6.5 and how they are configured
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Describe the areas where performance improvements were made in vSphere 6.5
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Availability Enhancements
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Describe the TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion that was introduced in vSphere 6.0
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Explain the changes that make vSphere vMotion migrations across high-latency networks possible
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Discuss the requirements for migrating a virtual machine across vCenter Server instances
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Explain how VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance in vSphere 6.0 supports virtual machines with multiple virtual CPUs
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Describe how vSphere Fault Tolerance maintains the secondary virtual machine in a ready state
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Explain the mechanism by which the primary virtual machine is determined
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Discuss the improvements made in handling all paths down (APD) and permanent device lost (PDL) conditions
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Describe the increased scalability of vSphere HA
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Explain the additional compatibility supported by vSphere HA
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Explain the enhancement of vSphere HA admission control in vSphere 6.5
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Describe the improvement of vSphere HA orchestrated restarts
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Assumed knowledge:
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This course requires completion of one the following courses or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESX®/ESXi and vCenter Server:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Fast Track
VMware vSphere: What’s New
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
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Schedule:
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3 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )
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Course price:
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1 200.00 € (1 452.00 € incl. 21% VAT)
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Education Partner:
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Tech Data AS Czech s.r.o.
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