Following the incredible energy and announcements at VMware Explore Las Vegas, we are thrilled to announce that the VMware Hands-on Labs catalog has been updated to feature VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1.
The new labs provide a direct, hands-on way for administrators, architects, and platform engineers to experience the unified private cloud operating model, memory tiering enhancements, and massive scale improvements introduced in VCF 9.1.
As part of this rollout, we are deprecating the VCF 9.0 labs from last year (the HOL-26xx series) and replacing them with our updated HOL-27xx series.
If you were planning to take a specific lab from last year or are searching for a particular topic, we’ve created a quick-reference mapping guide below to help you find the new VCF 9.1 equivalent SKU.
Lab SKU Mapping: VCF 9.0 to VCF 9.1
| Last Year’s SKU | Lab Title | New VCF 9.1 SKU |
| HOL-2601-01-VCF-L | Getting Started with VCF Operations | HOL-2711-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-03-VCF-L | Visualizing the Private Cloud using Dashboards Views and Reports in VCF Operations | HOL-2711-12-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-04-VCF-L | Troubleshooting the Private Cloud with VCF Operations | HOL-2711-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-06-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Operations: Analyzing Logs Metrics and Network Flows | HOL-2711-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-09-VCF-L | Monitoring Network and Storage Operations In the Private Cloud Using VCF Operations | HOL-2711-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-11-VCF-L | Monitoring Private Cloud Infrastructure with VCF Health and Diagnostics Using VCF Operations | HOL-2711-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-13-VCF-L | Monitoring Applications and Services In the Private Cloud Using VCF Operations | HOL-2711-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-15-VCF-L | Monitoring Security Operations in the Private Cloud with VCF Operations | HOL-2711-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-18-VCF-L | Capacity Optimization Planning and Green Score With VCF Operations | HOL-2711-08-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-19-VCF-L | Cost Optimization Showback and Chargeback Using VCF Operations | HOL-2711-09-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-21-VCF-L | Getting Started With VCF Automation | HOL-2711-21-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-22-VCF-L | Provider Management & Administration with VCF Automation | HOL-2711-22-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-23-VCF-L | Managing Organizations For All Apps With VCF Automation | Retired (None) |
| HOL-2601-24-VCF-L | Build Modern Applications Using Orgs For All Apps in VCF Automation | HOL-2711-24-VCF-L |
| HOL-2601-25-VCF-L | Deploying Modern Cloud Native Applications Using VCF Automation | HOL-2711-24-VCF-L |
| HOL-2603-01-VCF-S | VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Upgrading from vSphere 8 | HOL-2704-05-VCF-S |
| HOL-2603-02-VCF-S | NVMe Memory Tiering End to End Configuration on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | HOL-2734-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2608-01-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation – Maintaining Your Private Cloud | HOL-2704-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2608-02-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation Networking (VPC) | HOL-2704-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2608-03-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Operations and Tools | HOL-2704-06-VCF-L |
| HOL-2608-04-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation Operations HCX – Getting Started and Migration Planning | HOL-2705-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2608-05-VCF-L | VMware Cloud Foundation Operations HCX Advanced | HOL-2705-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2610-01-VCF-L | What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Platform | HOL-2704-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2610-02-VCF-L | What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Automation | HOL-2711-20-VCF-L |
| HOL-2610-03-VCF-L | What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Operations | HOL-2711-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2610-50-VCF-S | VCF 9 Single Sign-On Configuration | HOL-2704-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2630-01-VCF-L | What’s New with vSphere in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | HOL-2706-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2634-01-VCF-L | VMware vSAN – Getting Started and Advanced Topics | HOL-2734-01-VCF-L |
| HOL-2634-02-VCF-S | Enhanced vSphere Replication | HOL-2734-02-VCF-S |
| HOL-2634-03-VCF-L | VMware Live Recovery – Disaster Recovery Use Case | HOL-2734-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2634-04-VCF-S | VMware Live Recovery – Ransomware Recovery Use Case | HOL-2734-04-VCF-S |
| HOL-2636-01-VCF-L | Unifying VM and Kubernetes Management with vSphere Supervisor | HOL-2704-07-VCF-L |
| HOL-2637-02-VCF-L | VMware vSphere in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Advanced Topics | HOL-2706-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2637-05-VCF-L | VMware vSphere Automation – PowerCLI | HOL-2706-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2637-07-VCF-L | Introduction to vSphere Performance in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | HOL-2704-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2637-08-VCF-L | Workload Performance with VMmark in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | HOL-2704-04-VCF-L |
| HOL-2637-09-VCF-L | vSphere Performance Testing of ESXi Host Subsystems | HOL-2704-03-VCF-L |
| HOL-2640-01-VCF-L | Simplified Application Networking with NSX VPC | HOL-2704-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2640-02-VCF-L | Building Resilient Networks with NSX | HOL-2704-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2640-03-VCF-L | Multi-Tenant Networking with NSX | HOL-2704-02-VCF-L |
| HOL-2649-01-VCF-L | VMware Data Services Manager – Getting Started | HOL-2705-04-VCF-L |
| HOL-2649-02-VCF-S | VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA – Getting Started | HOL-2705-12-VCF-L |
| HOL-2670-01-ANS-L | VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall Getting Started | HOL-2770-03-ANS-L |
| HOL-2670-02-ANS-L | vDefend Firewall Security Journey | HOL-2770-01-ANS-L |
| HOL-2670-03-ANS-L | Advanced Security with VMware vDefend Firewall | HOL-2770-03-ANS-L |
| HOL-2670-04-ANS-L | VMware vDefend Firewall w/ Advanced Threat Protection | HOL-2770-02-ANS-L |
| HOL-2671-01-ANS-L | Load Balancing VMware Cloud Foundation Applications With VMware Avi Load Balancer | HOL-2740-01-ANS-L |
| HOL-2671-02-ANS-L | Getting Started With Avi Application Load Balancing | HOL-2740-02-ANS-L |
| HOL-2671-03-ANS-L | Migrating Legacy Load Balancing using Avi Conversion Tool | HOL-2740-05-ANS-L |
Ready to Explore?
You don’t need to build your own nested deployment to start exploring these capabilities. Head over to the VMware Hands-on Labs catalog to launch your chosen lab directly in your browser. Whether you want to test the new VCF Operations interface, experiment with NVMe memory tiering, or dive into Private AI, these environments are fully provisioned and ready for you today.
The full catalog of new labs can be found here: VCF 9.1 Catalog
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