In this hands-on Introduction to Virtualization Technology course you gain the knowledge and skills to successfully install, configure, manage, and deploy virtual servers and workstations in your organization. You will learn how to choose the proper virtual machine product for your environment, partition servers to isolate applications, improve portability and migration, and create entire testing labs within a single PC. Hands-on exercises provide practical experience with scripting administrative tasks, customizing virtual networks and clustering virtual machines.
You Will Learn How To:
- Manage VMware and Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) technologies
- Leverage VMs to build testing, support, and training environments
- Partition physical servers to decrease operating costs
- Migrate from physical to virtual machines
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Requirements
- Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux
- Networking knowledge
- No prior background with virtual machine technologies is required
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Recommended Experience
- TCP/IP networking
- File system management
- Operating system configuration
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Software
- You gain experience with the following virtualization products: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Workstation and ESXi Server, VirtualBox from Oracle, and XenServer by Citrix