COURSE 7475 | 2-day SESSION
Implementing Virtualization in the Enterprise

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Course outline

1. What is Virtualization?

• Overview
  
• Uses for virtualization
  
  • Software Testing
    
  • Virtual Desktops
    
  • Virtualized Applications
    
• Reasons not to virtualize

2. Hypervisor Based Virtualization

• VMware
  
• Xen
  
• Microsoft Hyper-V
  
• Virtual Iron
  
• Benefit of Hypervisor Based Virtualization
  
• Downside of Hypervisor Based Virtualization

3. OS Based Virtualization

• Windows Virtual Server
  
• SWSoft
  
• Benefit of OS based Virtualization
  
• Downside of OS based Virtualization

4. Application Virtualization

• Sun containers
  
• Benefit of Application Virtualization
  
• Downside of Application Virtualization

5. Considerations for Deploying Virtualization

• Resource Pools vs. Virtual Service Offerings
  
• Partitioning Shared Resources
  
• Automating tasks via scripting
  
• Migrating physical to virtual servers
  
• Optimizing performance

6. Implementing Virtualization in the Datacenter

• Server consolidation
  
• Infrastructure simplification
  
• Increased Utilization
  
• Business Continuity
  
• Server Mobility
  
  • V-Motion
    
• Disaster recovery

7. Considerations for the Datacenter

• Server hardware considerations
  
  • Memory Bandwidth
    
  • CPU Bandwidth
    
• Storage Issues
  
  • Storage requirements
    
  • External versus internal storage
    
• Networking issues
  
  • Bandwidth concerns with Virtualization
    
  • Network Switches
    
    • Cisco Nexus 700
      
  • Fibre Channel
    
  • iSCSI
    
• Power and Cooling Savings from Virtualization

8. Sizing Tools

• Determining the optimal number of VMs
  
  • Per system
    
  • In the datacenter

9. Virtualization outside the Datacenter

• Virtual Desktops
  
• Virtualized Applications
  
• Software Testing