PC Virtualization eLearning Course

Instructor(s): Paul Devriendt

Equivalent of: 4-day course

Subscription Length: 120 days

$995

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What's Included

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PC Virtualization eLearning modules
(unlimited access for 120 days)
PDF of Course Slides
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Course Completion Certificate
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Student Review

"Illustrative diagrams, quality audio, deep industry knowledge, technical expertise, Intel specific IO-enhancements!"

- Eric N.

You Will Learn

  • What virtualization is, and the revenue generating uses for virtualization.
  • The theory of virtualization, dating back to the IBM mainframes of the 60s and 70s, and how that mainframe technology is relevant to PC virtualization today.
  • How Intel has enhanced their processors to help implement classical virtualization.
  • How memory and I/O virtualization is achieved today.
  • The major sources of overhead with the virtualization techniques.

Course Description

Virtualization is one of the fascinating and complex areas in the PC industry, generating significant revenue, and solving critical problems in the PC data center. Virtualization technology is used across a wide range of platforms, from embedded to data center. This class is to explain what virtualization is, and what IT problems it solves, and also the problems that it does not solve. You will learn how Intel virtualization is implemented, along with the overhead and performance issues with the implementations.

Course Content

Module 1a: Introduction to Virtualization
Covers table of contents, intro to multi-tasking, encapsulation and virtualization, application level virtualization, API virtualization, containers, emulation

27min to complete

Module 1b: Introduction to Virtualization
Machine (server) virtualization, Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisors, guest vs host, virtual machine definition, partitioning, operating system vs hypervisor

29min to complete

Recommended Prerequisites

None.

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