Fundamentals of Network Virtualization
By David Davis
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Description
Network virtualization is used by server virtualization in the datacenter, it’s used by desktop virtualization on your laptop and, yes it’s used more and more to virtualize the functions of costly and complex network gear. Like server virtualization, network virtualization brings with it business agility, administrative efficiency, and cost savings. In this course, Fundamentals of Network Virtualization, you’ll see how you are able to do in software what, previously, was only possible with expensive routers and switches. Even better, once virtualized, you’ll gain a ton of efficiency and advanced functionality. First, you'll discover why you need network virtualization, what network virtualization is, and use cases for network virtualization. Next, you'll explore the benefits of network virtualization, including how you can achieve agility, efficiency, scalability, and availability with network virtualization. Finally, you'll see network virtualization in action. By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of network virtualization.
About the author
David has authored over 50 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere.
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Course Overview
Think about it for a minute, what if you could do in software what traditionally has required very expensive and complex networking hardware? Yes, I'm talking about network virtualization. You'll learn all about it in my latest course, Fundamentals of Network Virtualization. My name is David Davis, and I'm honored to be your instructor for this course. I've been writing, teaching, and speaking about enterprise technologies and cloud computing for over 10 years now. During that time, I've created over 50 courses, and this is one of my favorite courses yet. Network virtualization is used by server virtualization in the data center, and it's used more and more to virtualize the functions of costly and complex networking gear. Like server virtualization, network virtualization brings with it business agility, administrative efficiency, and cost savings. You'll be able to do in software what previously was only possible with expensive routers and switches. Even better, once virtualized, you'll gain a ton of efficiency and advanced functionality. This is very cool stuff. Watch this course, and you'll learn exactly what network virtualization is, how it works, and see it in action across multiple solutions. By the end of the course, you'll have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of network virtualization, and you don't need to know anything to get started. So get ready, and join me on this short adventure into the world of network virtualization.
Introduction
Just as servers, storage, and applications are being virtualized, so is the network. In this course, the Fundamentals of Network Virtualization, you'll learn what network virtualization is, how it can help you, and see it in action. My name is David Davis, and I'm excited to be your instructor for this course. You're watching the course introduction. I'm honored to be the first to welcome you to network virtualization. Network virtualization, I believe, is the future. With network virtualization, the physical network can be eliminated in most cases, and the traditional functions that were provided by that physical network can now be run virtually inside software. I'll be showing you firsthand how this works in this course, which I think, by the way, is going to be a great course on network virtualization. Thank you so much for joining us, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get started.
What Is Network Virtualization?
One of the most important things that you should get out of any fundamentals of network virtualization course is the answer to the question, what is network virtualization? That's exactly what you'll learn in this module. We'll kick it off with network virtualization defined, followed by how network virtualization works, the user cases for network virtualization, network virtualization versus software-defined networking, or SDN, network virtualization versus NFV, which is network function virtualization, and finally we'll wrap it up with a demo of administering virtual networks in VMware Fusion. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started.
Benefits of Network Virtualization
There are so many great benefits to using network virtualization, and that's exactly what we're going to cover in this module. Here's what you'll learn. We'll kick it off by discussing the agility benefits of network virtualization, followed by the efficiency, the scalability, the availability, and then we'll wrap it up with a demo of administering virtual networking in Microsoft Hyper-V. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started.
Network Virtualization in Action
Would you like to see network virtualization in action? I know I would, that's always my favorite part of any video training course is seeing the live demo, seeing the real products and tools in action. And I know we've done a little bit of that already in this course, but I think that I've saved the best for last. In this module, you'll learn about how to configure virtual networking in VMware vSphere, as well as configuring NFV or network function virtualization with VMware's enterprise-grade network virtualization and software-defined networking tool, VMware NSX. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started.