Essential New Skills in IT Administration - Virtualization (3)
0Virtualization is a vastly important topic to IT managers, as it allows one computer to run multiple operating systems, leading to a more efficient use of hardware resources. In this course, Martin Guidry looks at the crucial concepts behind today's virtualization technologies, covering the important features, plus plenty of other tools and techniques. He starts by discussing several advantages and a few disadvantages of virtualization. He then shows how to use Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Workstation to create and maintain virtual machines. Martin also offers advice on how to choose the right virtualization technologies for your situation and how to prepare your existing IT infrastructure to accommodate virtualization. He finishes the course with some tips for troubleshooting slow performance, network communication, and common errors in your virtual machine.
Creating a virtual machine with Hyper-V
Allocating processors and memory to a virtual machine using Hyper-V
Using checkpoints in Hyper-V
Uninstalling Hyper-V
7. VMware Workstation
Installing VMware Workstation
Creating a virtual machine with WMware workstation
Setting up networking with VMware Workstation
Allocating processors and memory to a virtual machine using VMware Workstation
Duplicating a virtual machine using WMware Workstation
8. Preparing Your Infrastructure for Virtualization
Understanding different file systems
Choosing between SAN, NAS or local storage
9. Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting network communication
Troubleshooting slow performance
Troubleshooting common errors
Conclusion
Next Steps