CL-315 Cloud & Platform

VMware & Hybrid Estate Modernization

Assess a vSphere estate honestly and design its route into a hybrid or managed-VMware target: connectivity, SDDC sizing, bulk migration mechanics and the licensing that drives the bill. Learners baseline a cluster, choose between Amazon EVS running VCF in your own VPC with licence portability · VMware Cloud on AWS now sold through Broadcom, Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine for named workloads, and produce a wave plan with switchover windows and a costed comparison against native rehost.

B3Practitioner

6modules

43skill atoms

1role journey

Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 43 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1vSphere Estate Assessment7 skill atoms

vCenter inventory export and an RVTools baselineCPU-ready and memory-ballooning signalsoversized VMs from historic provisioningdatastore layout and VMFS vs NFSorphaned VMDKs and abandoned snapshotsgaps in VM-to-application mappingright-size before the move not after

2Hybrid Connectivity7 skill atoms

Direct Connect and ExpressRoute circuit sizingL2 stretch vs L3 routed designsoverlapping RFC1918 ranges between estatesconditional forwarders for hybrid DNSMTU and MSS clamping over tunnelslatency budget for a split applicationredundancy across two circuits or paths

3Managed VMware Targets7 skill atoms

VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC layoutAzure VMware Solution private cloud with ExpressRoute Global ReachGoogle Cloud VMware Engine private cloudhost types, minimum node counts and scaling stepsvSAN capacity and slack-space rulesreaching native cloud services from the SDDCwhat the provider operates vs what you still own

4Bulk Migration with HCX7 skill atoms

HCX interconnect and network extension appliancesbulk migration vs vMotion vs replication-assisted movesmigration groups and scheduled switchoverWAN optimisation and realistic throughputIP retention on extended networksappliance sizing and tunnel instabilitymoving the default gateway at cutover

5Licensing and Cost Drivers8 skill atoms

subscription-only since 2024 with no perpetual pathper-core licensing with a 16-core minimum per CPU and a 72-core minimum per order lineportable licence and BYOL eligibility rulesWindows and SQL licence mobility on dedicated hostsnode-hour cost vs native instance costvSAN capacity as the binding constraintegress and interconnect chargescommit terms on managed VMware capacity

6Hybrid Design Lab7 skill atoms

target design for a mixed estatewhich VMs relocate and which replatformnetwork extension plan per VLANwave schedule with switchover windowscost comparison against native rehostrollback position for each wavedecommission trigger for the on-prem clusters

Where it fits

CL-315 in a role journey.

This course appears in 1 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud Migration Architect

Practitioner stage

CL-106→CL-315→CL-311

Roles this course serves

Cloud Migration Architect

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B3.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence

AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance

Knowledge checks

FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts

Guided labs, autograded exercises

PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently

Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams

ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes

Break-fix drills, design defenses

AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others

Rubric-scored capstones, vivas

ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams

Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

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VMware & Hybrid Estate Modernization

What this course covers.

CL-315 in a role journey.

Cloud Migration Architect

Roles this course serves

This course is authored to band B3.

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