Short background: I am a homelabber and I've worked in corporate IT for more than a decade. I've ran ESXi (and Hyper-V, Promox, unRAID) in my lab so I am not totally new to VMs or VMWare. My job just exposed me to vRealize, and it looks very interesting.
Here is my question: Starting with zero VMWare certs and some basic exposure to ESXi, what is a good way to get to a level of experience & certification where I could work in the VM field?
FYI, my homelab is 2x Dell R710s which I think top out at ESXi 6.0 U3 (probably saying that incorrectly). I have a T430 as well which will run 6.3 (I think) but that server is already assigned to running unRAID. I can buy new hardware if needed - and I say the group buy that the community is putting together.