This course will introduce students to installation, configuration, networking and management of virtual machines. Students will have the opportunity to utilize virtual environments to create, manage and secure virtual machines.

Learning Outcomes (LOs):

1. Demonstrate how to install and configure virtual machines.

2. Demonstrate how to create, network and secure virtual machines.

3. Demonstrate how to move, clone and backup virtual machines.

In each module you'll find Module Level Outcomes (MLOs). The MLOs shows a relationship to the Learning Outcomes using a → character. Each assignment also contains the MLO that you are expected to learn from completing it. Providing these details will help you understand why we are covering the material in each module and the purpose of each assignment.

What will we cover? This course will focus on the basics of virtualization . To understand virtualization we will cover the following topics (listed in no specific order):

• Basics of virtualization

• Type-1 Hypervisors

• Type-2 Hypervisors

• Virtual Machine Hardware

• Exporting VMs

• Cloning VMs

• Backing up VMs

• Networking

• Proxmox

• VMware vSphere

• Docker/Containers