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Fundamentals of Virtualization
5 Courses
8 Hours
Skill IQ
Virtualization is used by IT professionals in the datacenter, on the desktop, and in the cloud to gain tremendous efficiency. In this path, you’ll learn everything you need to know about server, desktop, storage, and network virtualization to get you started in today’s virtualization-dependent world.
Content in this path
Beginner
Gain a high-level knowledge of what virtualization is, how it is used across a server, storage, and network.
Intermediate
These courses provide specific examples of server, storage, and network virtualization across many different platforms.
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What You'll Learn
- Why companies desperately needed virtualization
- How virtualization has transformed datacenters, lowering costs and improving efficiency
- How a hypervisor makes server virtualization possible
- How servers are virtualized
- How to consolidate with virtualization
- How to test and deploy server virtualization
- How virtualization improves availability, data protection, performance, and business agility
- What network virtualization is and how it helps you
- See network virtualization in action with VMware NSX and virtual networking in vSphere
- What storage virtualization is and how it can benefit you
- Learn how to configure storage virtualization
- Find out how to convert virtual machines from one hypervisor to another and finally to AWS
- How virtual machines are administered in the public cloud
Prerequisites
- No experience is necessary, but some knowledge of server and operating system concepts is helpful.
Related topics
- Virtualization
- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
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