@Petr-Kasper,
As it goes, you must seek in your region what is high demand. Not every market will have the same demands for same skillset. So I would look and see what are 2 or 3 fields that you. see what companies are really looking at hiring. There are almost 2 universal skillsets that everyone will be hiring in the IT world: Cloud specializations (AWS, Azure, etc.) and some software development (backend and frontend). Look at those as specializations to at least have a background in that will continue to be in high demand regardless of the industry trends--Cloud and SoftwareDev -- this is the infrastructure of today. To not proceed without these skills.

@Austin-Olmstead,
Our courses are skill-based and the focus is learning the skill having said that, they are also created around exam objectives. If you have no other hands-on guide. I would use the exam objectives which can obtain from CompTIA as a starting point.

But it sounds like what you're wanting is something more like a program of study, you can check out the ACI Learning Tech Academy for something like this. You will have a skilled instructor, courseware, practice-exams and a lesson plan...the ITPRO courses are used as complement or supplement to those programs.

Having said that, there will be a difference in costs as the programs involve and provide more but may be worth it to you.

@Shannon-Wright,
There are hardware limitation based on the backplane of the switch model itself--(switching capacity). So, for example...the C9200L-24T-4G and C9200L-24P-4G have a 56Gbps back plane with port forwarding rates of ~41.5 Mbps. This ranges to the models C9200L-48PXG-4X and C9200L-48PXG-2Y that have 392 Gbps and 340 Gbps backplanes, respectively and each port can do from 292 Mbps and 252 Mbps, respectively as well.

So way to increase to the data sheet specification is for you to not set policies or ACLs, etc. on these switches...in other words reduce the switches need to not use the control plane as much as you can...then you're unlimited to the point of the data specifications of the hardware itself.

@Robert-Neal Did you check on that GPO. Is it a pre-requisite? Most of our computers are listed as "Microsoft Entra registered" and I don't know if we need to switch them to hybrid join first so the GPO isn't needed, or if we need both hybrid and on-premises GPO. Everyone will have to come back to work.

I know I can add them manually with the Company Portal but we are trying to automate this.

Wow! What a comprehensive response! Thank you so much, Robin. Very helpful!

@Dwayne-Coleman - to officially submit a course request - you use the chat with support feature available on this site. You will see this chat icon in the lower right of the main interface (page). Thanks so much!

Could you please respond to my message. Thank you

We don't really know what AWS is doing behind the scenes for our NAT - it just works! For companies that do want to precisely control how the NAT functions, AWS does offer various solutions for NAT. Most customers, however, LOVE the fact that they do not have to worry about the configuration of Network Address Translation.

@Ronnie-Wong Thank you for your help and for all of the research that you performed. In my own study notes text files, I've been manually typing the https addresses (URLs) that I'm seeing on the screen in his videos, and that's been working out for the most part.

It's just that many of the lesson videos (though not all) show him walking through these extra notes text files in Visual Studio Code with many extra helpful references and walk through guidance, and these are extra text files that are not included among the available lesson files. One example of this is the file (as appears on the screen in the video) that is named "Create and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates by using Visual Studio Code.md" ... which seems to be his custom text files, with unique files (in this regard) for many of the separate lessons. Below are a few screen captures from lesson "ARM Templates - Exercise" (in section "Implement IaaS Solutions") which show one of these additional text files:

These two images show two portions of this text file in the full context of the video:

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And these two images are the same two portions of this text file, but cropped for closer inspection:

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@Jeff-Gortney,

Sounds like a great idea. You have to make decisions for dividing up your LUN across your SAN. Do you need larger and fewer LUNs or smaller and more LUNs.

Take a look at VMWare's documentation on this decision and some good considersations: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-2C8FAE1F-98F7-4E0B-AEA0-83A4FF16A252.html

I've been a long time ESXi user, which is fine but with a SAN, to fully take advantage of the SAN you may also want to consider vSphere to manage ESXi to the fullest capabilities.

Congrats on you passing the Linux+!

I signed up for a continuing edu course with a local university that will be a month long. I still plan on using ITPro to firm up concepts, as well as a Mcgraw-Hill book.

@Denise-Mitchell, This is a weird hidden thing in the system. If you had make this a "ask a question" then you would have been presented the option (hidden--3 vertical dots) to mark as the answer. Yeah, not sure why the developers chose that but it's what it is!

I changed your post to "ask as a question." so if you want, you can go to my answer...choose the 3 vertical dots...there you'll the option.