This course is an overview to the latest virtualization technology with chapters dedicated to Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, Microsoft® Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. This course content focuses on virtualization in software-defined data centers. Readers learn to build virtual networks, implement high-availability clusters, enhance performance and security, and manage the virtual data center. Students implement virtual desktop infrastructures using both VMware Horizon and Microsoft VDI. They will also examine cloud computing environments with VMware vCloud and Microsoft Azure, and will allow us to explore in-depth the challenges for cloud networking—how we build a network infrastructure that provides the agility to deploy virtual networks on a shared infrastructure, that enables both efficient transfer of big data and low latency communication, and that enables applications to be federated across countries and continents.
- Teacher: Felicia Reynolds