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CL-316 Cloud & Platform

VMware Exit Engineering

Take VM estates off VMware and onto cloud-native or KVM-based targets, at the level of detail where these projects actually fail: drivers, boot paths, MAC addresses, shared disks and rollback windows. Learners convert guests to OpenShift Virtualization and native IaaS targets, translate network and storage constructs, and run a cutover test that has to survive a deliberately broken conversion.

B4Professional
6modules
45skill atoms
1role journey
Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 45 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Exit Target Selection8 skill atoms
native IaaS rehost vs an on-prem hypervisor swapNutanix AHV and Hyper-V / Azure Local as the volume commercial exitsOpenShift Virtualization and KubeVirtProxmox and plain libvirt for cost-led exitscontainerise-or-keep-as-a-VM decision testworkloads blocked by vendor certificationappliance and licence-locked VMstarget chosen per workload class not per estate
2Image and Guest Conversion9 skill atoms
MTV / Forklift and Nutanix Move for wave-scale conversionvirt-v2v for the one-off and the debug pathVMDK to qcow2 or raw conversionVMware Tools removal and virtio driver injectionWindows boot failure from a missing storage driverUEFI vs BIOS and secure boot mismatchparavirtual to virtio controller changeguest agent, time sync and cloud-init enablementgolden image rebuild vs lifting the disk
3Network Conversion7 skill atoms
port group and VLAN mapped to subnet or bridgedistributed switch features with no equivalentre-addressing vs retaining IPsMAC change breaking licences and cluster membershipNSX policy translated to security groups or NetworkPolicyload balancer and VIP re-creationmulti-NIC and inline appliance VMs
4Storage Re-platforming7 skill atoms
vSAN and VMFS datastores to block, file or objectRDM and shared-disk clusters with no direct equivalentthin provisioning and reported capacity differencesIOPS and latency profile of the target volume classsnapshot and backup tooling replacementmulti-writer disks for guest clusteringdata copy vs block replication cut
5Cutover Testing7 skill atoms
non-destructive test conversion into an isolated networkapplication smoke tests owned by the app teamperformance compared against the vSphere baselineboot, patch and reboot verified before sign-offbackup and restore proven on the targetmonitoring and agent re-enrolmentsign-off checklist per VM class
6Failure and Rollback Modes7 skill atoms
unbootable guest after driver injectionsilent corruption from an interrupted copylicence deactivation on hardware ID changerollback window bounded by write-back datasource VM powered off rather than deletedfailed-wave triage and re-run playbookhypercare monitoring after each wave
Where it fits

CL-316 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

Professional stage
CL-314→CL-316→CL-202

Roles this course serves

Cloud Migration Architect
The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

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
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
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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