Virtualization with VMware: An Overview

Overview/Description
Virtualization has become increasingly desirable in today's IT infrastructures. Companies from small start-ups to enterprise environments are turning to virtualization, not only for testing, but also for full production environments now. This course examines the history of virtualization, the concepts behind virtualization, and how virtual machines and virtual infrastructures are used in today's evolving IT world. It also covers the benefits of virtualization and how to evaluate whether virtualization should be implemented in your organization. The course provides an overview of VMware desktop, server, and datacenter technologies.

Target Audience
IT planners, systems designers, business analysts, strategic decision makers, technical engineers

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Virtualization with VMware: An Overview

recognize the benefits of virtualization

recognize what virtualization can enable you to do

identify the considerations for deciding whether to implement virtualization in an organization

recognize the purpose of a virtual machine and a virtual infrastructure

identify scenarios that indicate virtualization is suitable for an organization

evaluate whether virtualization is an appropriate solution for an organization

recognize the purpose of VMware desktop products

recognize the features of VMware Server and VMware ESXi

recognize the purpose of VMware datacenter products

choose the most appropriate VMware virtualization products for given scenarios