Virtualization detailed syllabus for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (AI&DS) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AI&DS students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION
Virtualization and cloud computing – Need of virtualization – cost, administration, fast deployment, reduce infrastructure cost – limitations- Types of hardware virtualization: Full virtualization – partial virtualization – Paravirtualization-Types of Hypervisors
Unit II
SERVER AND DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION
Virtual machine basics- Types of virtual machines- Understanding Server Virtualization- types of server virtualization- Business Cases for Server Virtualization – Uses of Virtual Server Consolidation – Selecting Server Virtualization Platform-Desktop Virtualization-Types of Desktop Virtualization
Unit III
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Unit IV
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION
Memory Virtualization-Types of Storage Virtualization-Block, File-Address space Remapping-Risks of Storage Virtualization-SAN-NAS-RAID
Unit V
VIRTUALIZATION TOOLS
VMWare-Amazon AWS-Microsoft HyperV- Oracle VM Virtual Box – IBM PowerVM- Google Virtualization- Case study.
Practical Exercises:
- Create type 2 virtualization in VMWARE or any equivalent Open Source Tool. Allocate memory and storage space as per requirement. Install Guest OS on that VMWARE.
- Shrink and extend virtual disk
- Create, Manage, Configure and schedule snapshots
- Create Spanned, Mirrored and Striped volume
- Create RAID 5 volume
- Desktop Virtualization using VNC
- Desktop Virtualization using Chrome Remote Desktop
- Create type 2 virtualization on ESXI 6.5 server
- Create a VLAN in CISCO packet tracer
- Install KVM in Linux
- Create Nested Virtual Machine(VM under another VM)
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Cloud computing a practical approach – Anthony T.Velte , Toby J. Velte Robert Elsenpeter, TATA McGraw- Hill , New Delhi – 2010
- Cloud Computing (Principles and Paradigms), Edited by Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Andrzej Goscinski, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011
- David Marshall, Wade A. Reynolds, Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platform in the Virtual Data Center, Auerbach
- Chris Wolf, Erick M. Halter, “Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise”, APress, 2005.
- James E. Smith, Ravi Nair, “Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes”, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
- David Marshall, Wade A. Reynolds, “Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platform in the Virtual Data Center”, Auerbach Publications, 2006.
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