Description

This seminar offers a technical overview of virtualization solutions. It will allow you to understand the challenges of virtualization, take stock of market solutions and measure their contributions and impacts on information systems architectures.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

IT or production managers. Operations, relationship, application or Helpdesk managers. System or network administrators. Project managers, users...

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Define the fundamentals of virtualization Categorize market virtualization solutions Identify the structural impacts of IT virtualization Measure the benefits that virtualization represents

Training program

• Presentation
  • The history of virtualization.
  • The evolution of the virtualization market.
  • The rationalization of IT services through virtualization, the challenges and the gains .
  • The evolution of the virtualization market.
• The fundamentals of virtualization
  • Use cases for virtualization.
  • What impact on software royalties? The concept of Cloud Computing.
  • Service models ( SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and deployment models (private, public, hybrid).
  • The additional components of a private Cloud compared to a virtual infrastructure.
  • A tour overview of x86 systems virtualization technologies.
  • The different approaches to virtualizing a server.
  • Native virtualization, assisted by hardware, virtualization at the OS level.
  • Type 1, type 2 hypervisors.
  • An overview of components: operating system and application virtualization.
  • The different market players .
• Virtualization features
  • deployment of the virtual infrastructure, flexibility in creating virtual machines.
  • Scalability of the virtual platform.
  • Simplification of administration and operation.
  • Optimization of resource management: VM, CPU, memory, storage, network.
  • Service continuity, high availability.
  • The integration of virtual networks into physical networks.
  • The use of different types of storage and their criticality.
• Market solutions
  • The overview of the different offers (Microsoft, Xen, VMware.
  • ).
  • What are the differences between the editions and licenses? What to choose?r nComparison and positioning of market leaders.
  • VMware: overview of the architecture of VMware vSphere, ESXi hypervisor.
  • The vCenter console.
  • Microsoft: Hyper-V and the System Center suite.
  • Citrix: Xen, XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop.
  • Linux KVM: QEMU, Libvirt Architecture, Red Hat Enterprise.
• Server virtualization
  • The technical differences between virtualizing a workstation and a server.
  • What limits? Can we virtualize all the servers? The flexibility of creating virtual machines.
  • The different types of storage: DAS, SAN, NAS.
  • Storage virtualization for server virtualization.
  • Network virtualization: physical network cards and virtualization, physical and virtual network switches.
  • Quality of service.
  • Deployment.
  • Administration of the virtualization solution.
  • Operating costs.
  • Service continuity (PCA).
  • The business recovery plan (PRA).
  • The flexibility of the information system: facilitating the PRA.
• Workstation virtualization
  • The issues related to the virtualization of workstations.
  • The technologies of virtualization of workstations.
  • The strategies for deploying virtualized workstations.
  • Application virtualization.
  • The different market players.
• Managing the virtualized environment
  • Monitoring the virtual infrastructure: alerts, actions, reporting, capacity.
  • ?rnAnalyzing and monitoring the performance of the virtual infrastructure, its supervision.
  • X2X market migration tools (P2V, V2V, V2P).
  • P2V: conversion of a physical machine into a virtual machine.
  • The V2V: conversion of a virtual computer into a virtual computer, migration.
  • V2P: conversion of a virtual machine into a physical machine.
  • Backup of virtual machines, solutions for market (Platespin, VizionCore, Veeam.
  • ).
  • Automation of operations on virtual infrastructures.
  • Securing networks and data.
  • Understand security and the PRA (Disaster Recovery Plan) of a virtual infrastructure.
  • What a PRA (Disaster Recovery Plan) is, what 'it contains, its objective.'}
• Best practices for implementing a virtualization project
  • The methodology for implementing a virtualization project.
  • The impacts on the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and the ROI (Return On Investment).
  • Implementation: risks, limits and recommendations.
  • Best practices for migrating versions or hypervisors.