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LaRoche Skills Institute Center for IT & Virtualization Education

Academic Course Catalog

Browse our structured course offerings across virtualization telemetry, enterprise system operations, and data center efficiency.

Course Code: LSI-RVT-101

RVtools Virtualization Education

An in-depth study of environment discovery, health checks, snapshot auditing, and command-line automation using the RVTools utility.

  • Read-only vCenter role delegation
  • vInfo & VM configuration cataloging
  • vDisk allocation vs uncommitted storage
  • Zombie file & snapshot tree identification
Course Code: LSI-SYS-201

System Administration & Maintenance

Essential operational methodologies for hypervisor management, virtual networking configurations, security patching, and disaster recovery readiness.

  • Host clustering & baseline maintenance
  • Distributed vSwitch & VLAN segmentation
  • Access control and administrative audit logs
  • System baseline backup and restore procedures
Course Code: LSI-DCO-301

Data Center Optimization

A rigorous examination of resource efficiency, cluster capacity ceilings, compute and storage overcommitment, and storage tier optimization.

  • CPU overcommitment and ready-time analysis
  • Memory ballooning & hypervisor swapping
  • Storage latency and multipath load balancing
  • Power efficiency and hardware consolidation