Best study guide with online labs?

What is the best paid study guide with online labs that I can click and learn with? I'm looking for something that will help with VCP. I'm also going to start working on an MCSA as well. I know VMWare has online learning, but its crazy expensive. Anything out there for around $500 that includes online labs?

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tunerX

Stanly.edu.

The same material as the crazy expensive learning but it is part of the of the ViTA program.

https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=69513&ui=www_edu

I paid 185 for the class and 65 for the physical books. Do a search in the forums for stanly and you will find threads and info about them. There is also a stanly employee that frequents TE.

scott28tt

You'll need to meet the training requirement - by taking training with VMware, a VATC partner, or a VITA partner (only if paying for the training yourself).

You'll get labs as part of that training.

For longer-term lab access, VMware have free HOLs, or you could build up a virtual lab yourself on a single physical system and evaluation software.

has786

Yh I recommend buying a server or highend pc and build the labs using VCP6 the CBT Nuggets videos. The online labs are feel a bit slow.

duta74

https://itpro.tv/ have VCP6-DCV training:
https://itpro.tv/course-library/vmware-certified-professional-6-vcp6dcv/
Their Premium subscription includes Practice Labs and Transcender Practice exams.
Premium subscription are for whole their courses, which includes MCSA and MCSE exap preps with same bundle: labs end practice exams.
You practically always can found ~30% discount coupon for their subscription.

For VCP6-DCV studing, IMHO Pluralsight courses: Foundation(Exam #2V0-620) and VCP6-DCV(Exam #2V0-621) are better choice.
https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/certificate/vmware-vsphere-6-foundations
https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/certificate/vsphere-6-dcv

GSXRules

I am a big fan of HoL (and built VCAP test simulators for it) but you start out with a complete environment and you're restricted to what you can do - like no upgrades, no new components (standalone Edge Services Gateway I'm looking at you).

I have a desktop I built a few years ago with an i7-4770k CPU and 32GB RAM. On Sunday I took a leftover 240GB SSD from a laptop upgrade I helped someone with a couple years ago, put it in a USB3 enclosure and built a 2-host NSX 6.3 lab on VMware Workstation*

All of my VMware licenses came from the vExpert program but you can sign up for VMUG Advantage ($200) for all the licenses (1-yr) or (assuming you don't want NSX) use the eval licenses (30 day? 60 day?) from VMware's Trial program.

*I actually tried this on a RAID5 USB3 enclosure from TerraMaster but performance was... lacking