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WWT in the Data Center Space
Having an infrastructure that's agile enough to respond to today's data center demands is crucial to providing the service that Boeing's employees and customers need across the globe. When you have an agile data center you can maintain control of your data, protect against cyber attacks, respond to business and market changes and ultimately make the data center work as you intended. With Boeing's numerous workloads in the data center, at the edge or in the cloud, we at WWT aim to help Boeing manage, scale, secure and future-proof their data center.
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Data Center Workshops
Below is a compilation of the data center labs we provide for free. The purpose of these workshops is to help Boeing make informed decisions faster. These workshops are led by our subject matter experts, who are tenured experts that can help you realize your goals into tangible outcomes.
Cyber Recovery Experience - Healthcare
Cyber recovery is paramount in today's digital age, and organizations are adopting an assume breach posture to jumpstart their cyber resilience and recovery strategies to minimize the impact of future cyber attacks. One of the most proven and effective ways to get your company's journey started is to conduct in-person tabletop exercises.
Cyber Recovery Experience
Cyber recovery is paramount in today's digital age, and organizations are adopting an assume breach posture to jumpstart their cyber resilience and recovery strategies to minimize the impact of future cyber attacks. One of the most proven and effective ways to get your company's journey started is to conduct in-person tabletop exercises.
Cisco Intersight Workshop
Cisco Intersight provides intelligent cloud-based infrastructure management with embedded analytics for the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco HyperFlex platforms. This platform offers an intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the prior generations of tools.
Hands-on learning in the ATC
Below you will find a list of labs that are hosted in our Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Our ATC labs are geared towards building foundational knowledge across a range of OEM's technologies, letting engineers experience the breadth of the IT landscape all for free! We hope you enjoy.
Server Infrastructure
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) Walkthrough
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, managing complex network environments has become a necessity for organizations looking to optimize their infrastructure. VMware, a pioneer in virtualization technologies, offers a powerful solution: the vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). This advanced networking tool enables seamless management of networking configurations across multiple hosts, streamlining network administration and improving performance.
One of the key features of vDS is the ability to create Distributed Port Groups (DPG), which provide a consistent network configuration across multiple hosts within a data center. In this lab, we will take a deep dive into the world of VMware Distributed Switches, guiding you step-by-step on how to create and configure Distributed Port Groups.
VMware Intro to Virtualization Lab
Lab users are provided a dedicated nested VMware environment to use as for an intro to VMware's server virtualization products, ESXi and Virtual Center.
Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure Lab
The Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Lab showcases how to create impossible hardware configurations that are unfeasible in the physical world. Compose bare metal servers with any number of configurations via software. The lab consists of Dell PowerEdge compute, Liqid PCIe4 Fabric, Liqid Matrix Software, Intel NVMe and NVIDIA GPUs.
Basic VMware Troubleshooting
This lab presents the user with a virtual environment with issues that need fixing. The user will troubleshoot a problem logging into vCenter, troubleshoot an issue trying to SSH into an ESXi host and troubleshoot a network issue on an Ubuntu virtual machine.
Primary Storage
Pure Storage FlashArray //X Lab
*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. ***
The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab
If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray.
*** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
Pure Storage FlashArray //C Lab
Pure Storage FlashArray //C lets you consolidate workloads and simplify storage with consistent all-flash performance at a lower TCO over hybrid storage. This lab consists of Pure's capacity-optimized array offering - FlashArray //C60 running Purity 6.x with File Services enabled.
NetApp Ansible Automation Lab
Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.
Pure Storage FlashBlade
The Pure Storage FlashBlade family is an elastic scale out file and object, all flash storage solution that gives customers an advanced data-hub approach to managing their data. WWT has partnered with Pure Storage to provide this lab giving access to the Purity//FB operating environment on FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E Hardware in the Advanced Technology Center. This lab showcases Pure's RapidFile Toolkit that supercharges common Linux operating system commands running against NFS File Shares on the FlashBlade.
Everpure FlashArray - ActiveDR Lab
In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure ActiveDR replication between PODs running on two FlashArrays. You will also see how Everpure's FlashArray ActiveDR replication can be used to aid in the recovery process should one of your data centers experience an outage or an array failure.
Everpure FlashArray - ActiveCluster Lab
The Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) FlashArray natively supports synchronous replication that allows one to stretch a provisioned volume across two storage arrays. This feature is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in a VMware environment to demonstrate how it protects you from different failure scenarios.
Everpure FlashArray - FA Files Lab
In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure FA Files on a FlashArray along with setting up replication to a second FlashArray.
Data Protection
Achieve OWASP Compliance Through BIG-IP AWAF
Systems are at higher risk without a concerted, repeatable application security configuration process. In this lab, you will learn how to build a declarative AWAF policy and achieve OWASP Top Ten (2021) compliance with the BIG-IP OWASP Compliance Dashboard. A complete CI/CD pipeline is used to deploy our AWAF policy to the BIG-IP system using Application Services 3 Extension (AS3) and Ansible.
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP Use Cases Demo
Several of the fundamental principles of F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) are highlighted in this lab environment.
You will be simulating a customer during the lab who needs to verify the safety of an application. The objective is to verify the applications safety of on-premises or application on cloud before and after enabling F5 Distributed Cloud Console WAAP Capabilities by sending attacks to the application.
Hands-on with Microsoft Active Directory
In this lab, you will set up a basic Active Directory environment to gain practical experience with directory services. The steps will include installing Active Directory, creating two Organizational Units (OUs)—one for users and one for groups—and setting up both a user account and a group account. To demonstrate group membership management, you will then add the user to the group. This lab is designed to help you build foundational skills for managing users and resources in a Windows Server environment.
Hyper-V - VM Creations Lab
In this lab, we will walk through the process of creating a Hyper-V virtual machine. The lab will guide you through selecting the VM's configuration, such as allocating memory, assigning virtual processors, and creating a virtual hard disk. We will then show how to choose the installation method, such as using an ISO image, to install the operating system.
Veeam Availability Suite Lab
This lab introduces Veeam Backup & Recovery, focusing on the protection of virtual machines running on VMware. Exercises include initial configuration, manual backup of a VM, and protection of VMs using tags.
Rubrik Cloud Data Management Essentials Lab
Rubrik is a cloud data management and data security platform that focuses on much more than data backups. This lab provides a foundational overview of basic configuration tasks, implementation of objects, protection and recovery of VMware Virtual Machines, and SQL Databases, as well as an overview of Rubrik Reporting using Rubrik Security Cloud.
Dell PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition Deployment and Configuration
Dell PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) is the software-defined data protection offering within the Dell PowerProtect DD Series. DDVE provides flexibility while maintaining all the core differentiating protection storage capabilities. This lab will demonstrate the deployment and initial configuration of a PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition instance within a VMware vSphere environment.
Exploring Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
This lab introduces Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes, guiding learners through its interface, backup policy creation, and application restoration. Additionally, it explores blueprints and transform sets, equipping users with essential skills for efficient Kubernetes data management.
Cloud Data Management
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP Use Cases Demo
Several of the fundamental principles of F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) are highlighted in this lab environment.
You will be simulating a customer during the lab who needs to verify the safety of an application. The objective is to verify the applications safety of on-premises or application on cloud before and after enabling F5 Distributed Cloud Console WAAP Capabilities by sending attacks to the application.
Azure Fundamentals: Compute Lab
Walk through fundamental Azure compute concepts within the Azure Portal and Azure CLI.
Rubrik Cloud Data Management Essentials Lab
Rubrik is a cloud data management and data security platform that focuses on much more than data backups. This lab provides a foundational overview of basic configuration tasks, implementation of objects, protection and recovery of VMware Virtual Machines, and SQL Databases, as well as an overview of Rubrik Reporting using Rubrik Security Cloud.
Azure Fundamentals: Networking Lab
Walk through fundamental Azure networking concepts within the Azure Portal and Azure CLI.
AWS Storage Lab
Lab that walks thru using the AWS CLI and Console to understand AWS Storage.
Facilities Infrastructure
Cisco Meraki Smart Camera and Environmental Sensors Lab
Welcome to the WWT ATC Cisco Meraki Smart Camera and Environmental Sensors Lab. This lab allows you to gain hands-on experience with the Cisco Meraki Smart Cameras and Sensors.
Avocent ACS Advanced Console Server Lab
The Avocent ACS Advanced Console Server is a 1U appliance used by network, server and data center administrators to manage their serial-based infrastructure via SSH or Telnet. The ACS Advanced Console Server supports accessing the serial infrastructure both in-band and out-of-band. Using an RJ-45, DB-9, or DB=25 cable connection, ACS Advanced Console Server's IP address, by SSH redirection, or pass-through, or by out-of-band connection through an external cellular (4G LTE) or internal analog modem. The flexibility of these options makes the ACS an excellent tool for customers to remotely and security access their IT equipment.