Each successful student in this course will become familiar with hypervisors, virtualization terms, infrastructure considerations, and appropriate use cases. While designed to give an overview of today’s Virtualization technologies and methods, students in the course will gain enough practical knowledge to begin deploying various hypervisors and virtual machine environments using current industry standard platforms.
Operating System Virtualization - Bachelor's
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There are 9 modules in this course
Welcome to Operating System Virtualization! Each successful student in this course will become familiar with hypervisors, virtualization terms, infrastructure considerations, and appropriate use cases. While designed to give an overview of today’s Virtualization technologies and methods, students in the course will gain enough practical knowledge to begin deploying various hypervisors and virtual machine environments using current industry standard platforms. Module one gives a brief origin of virtualization, the modern hypervisor, types of virtualization, and types of today’s hypervisors.
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11 videos7 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt
Module two discusses hosting types and scenarios for creating virtualization platforms and basic hardware concepts for virtualization hosts and infrastructure.
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10 videos7 readings5 assignments
Module three outlines and examines the VM creation process, resource allocation, and procedures used after a guest OS has been installed.
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10 videos8 readings6 assignments
Module four highlights aspects of hypervisor administration as well as concepts related to resource overcommitment.
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7 videos5 readings4 assignments
Module five defines both physical and virtual networking concepts as they relate to both host hardware and virtual machine hardware.
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8 videos6 readings5 assignments
Module six defines local and shared storage concepts, as well as shared storage devices, networks, and hypervisor access to storage.
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8 videos6 readings4 assignments
Module seven gives learners an introduction to the clustering of hypervisors. Topics include how hosts are clustered as well as features available because of clustering.
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7 videos6 readings4 assignments
Module 8 introduces the concept of end-user computing and how virtualization technology can be used to deliver secure on-demand desktops to end users.
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7 videos6 readings4 assignments
This module contains the summative course assessment that has been designed to evaluate your understanding of the course material and assess your ability to apply the knowledge you have acquired throughout the course.
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1 assignment
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Whizlabs
University of California, Irvine
University of London
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This course is part of the following degree program(s) offered by Illinois Tech. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹
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