Virtualization: The Big Picture
New to virtualization? Well this is a great entry level virtualization course made for you. Learn exactly what virtualization is, how it helps you, the various forms of virtualization, and where to go to learn more.
What you'll learn
Whether or not you’ve heard of it before, virtualization is in use in just about every datacenter and the public cloud. But what is virtualization really and how does it help to make your life easier? In this course, Virtualization: The Big Picture, you'll learn why you need virtualization and the basics of how it works. First, you'll delve into an IT challenge before virtualization. Then, you'll discover how virtualization solves these challenges by making IT more efficient, lowering costs, improving availability, and making the business more agile. From there, you’ll learn how the virtualization hypervisor uses abstraction to provide these incredible benefits. Finally, you’ll explore virtualization in action across several demos. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the knowledge needed to understand the many forms of virtualization and use virtualization in the real world.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 2m
- Virtualization Defined 3m
- Many Forms of Virtualization 4m
- Definition of a Hypervisor 1m
- What Is Server Virtualization? 1m
- What Is a Virtual Machine? 2m
- Understanding Virtual CPU, Memory, Storage, and Network 4m
- Type 1 vs. Type 2 Hypervisors 3m
- How You Administer Enterprise Virtualization 4m
- Virtualization vs. The Cloud 2m
- Virtualization vs. Containers 2m
- What You Learned 3m
- What This Module Covers 2m
- The IT Challenge before Virtualization 8m
- Lowering Datacenter and Administrative Costs 3m
- Improving Availability 3m
- Improving Data Protection and Disaster Recovery 3m
- Reducing Energy Consumption 3m
- Increasing Business Agility 3m
- Complexities Introduced by Virtualization 5m
- Summarizing the Benefits of Virtualization 2m
- What You Learned 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more