Introduction to Virtualization Technologies

Virtualization has become a critically important focus of the IT world in recent years. Virtualization technologies are used by countless thousands of companies to consolidate their workloads and to make their IT environments scalable and more flexible. If you want to learn cloud computing, you'll simply have to absorb the basic virtualization technology concepts at some point. 

This lesson will give you all the fundamental concepts to understand how Virtualization works: why it's so important and how we moved from Virtualization to cloud computing. As a beginner lesson, you will find how Virtualization helps companies and professionals achieving better TCO and how it works from a technical point of view. Learn what is an hypervisor, how virtual machines are separated inside the same physical host and how they communicate with lower hardware levels. If you want to start a career in the cloud computing industry, you will need to know how the most common virtualization technologies works and how they are used in cloud infrastractures. 

A consistent part of this lesson is dedicated to the description of the most common technologies like: VMware, XEN, KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V. You will learn how they are used in the most common public cloud infrastructures and when to use them based on your needs. 

Why you should know about Virtualization

As a fundamental technology for the cloud computing industry, learning how Virtualization works will give you several advantages for your career. You will understand technical and economical advantages introduced by Virtualization in the modern public cloud environments. You should watch this lesson before start learning about cloud computing and other cloud related technologies.