Whether or not you’ve heard of it before, virtualization is in use in just about every datacenter and the public cloud. But what is virtualization really and how does it help to make your life easier? In this course, Virtualization: The Big Picture, you’ll learn why you need virtualization and the basics of how it works. First, you’ll delve into an IT challenge before virtualization. Then, you’ll 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 virtualization in action across several demos. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the knowledge needed to understand the many forms of virtualization and use virtualization in the real world.
Author Name: David Davis
Author Description:
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

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introduction
  6mins
• What Is Virtualization?
  31mins
• Why You Need Virtualization
  32mins
• Virtualization: What’s Next?
  4mins