Virtualization: The Big Picture
Virtualization is used in datacenters and clouds around the world. In this course, you’ll learn how virtualization works, it’s numerous benefits, and have a solid foundation for future product-focused virtualization courses in the learning path.
What you'll learn
New to virtualization? This course is one of the best entry-level virtualization courses you will find. In this course, Virtualization: The Big Picture, you’ll learn why you need virtualization and the basics of how it works. First, you'll gain an understanding of the IT challenge before virtualization then 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 how virtualization is used in the public cloud. By the end of this course, you'll truly understand what virtualization is, how it can help you, and, most importantly, feel comfortable with virtualization.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 1m
- Virtualization Defined 1m
- 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 3m
- Type 1 vs. Type 2 Hypervisors 3m
- How You Administer Enterprise Virtualization 2m
- Virtualization vs. "The Cloud" 1m
- What You Learned 2m
- What This Module Covers 1m
- The IT Challenge Before Virtualization 6m
- Server Virtualization Saves Your Company Time and Money 1m
- Lowering Datacenter and Administrative Costs 2m
- Improving Availability 3m
- Improving Data Protection and Disaster Recovery 2m
- Reducing Energy Consumption 2m
- Increasing Business Agility 3m
- Complexities Introduced by Virtualization 5m
- Summarizing the Benefits of Virtualization 2m
- What You Learned 1m
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