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Virtualize your infrastructure: planning

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Class overview
Virtualize your infrastructure: planning Today, businesses are turning to virtualization technology solutions to simplify, standardize, integrate and gain modularity throughout the IT infrastructure. In this class designed for network administrators or those with a familiarity with virtualization, you'll learn how to plan a virtualized environment in preparation of deployment.
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What you'll learn
  • Determine if you're ready for a virtual infrastructure
  • Perform an IT infrastructure assessment and determine what you can virtualize
  • Select the components of a virtualized solution
  • Outline strategies and best practices for implementing a virtual IT infrastructure
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Lessons
» Lesson 1: Understanding virtualization
The flexibility and robustness of today's virtualization technology enables IT administrators to create entire IT infrastructures on a single computer. This lesson explores virtualization and the benefits it can bring to your business.
Lesson 2: Preparing for virtualization: performing an infrastructure evaluation
To get the best return on your investment, you need to thoroughly evaluate your current infrastructure to determine which technologies and processes are candidates for virtualization. This lesson helps you assess your environment and gather data.
Lesson 3: Understanding and selecting virtualization technology
Today's virtualization solutions greatly simplify the process of creating virtual machines, migrating data and creating and managing virtualized environments. This lesson helps you determine exactly what you need to complete a virtualization project.
Lesson 4: Planning the virtualization implementation
Once you know what you'll virtualize and which hardware will support your selected virtualization solution, you need to plan the rollout. This lesson steps you through best practices and strategies for implementing your virtualization project.
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Instructor
Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon
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Michael Solomon, CISSP, PMP, TICSA, CISM, is a full-time security speaker, consultant, and trainer who specializes in development and assessment security topics. An IT professional and consultant since 1987, he has worked with several Fortune 500 companies. He has also taught courses on software project management, C++ programming, computer organization and architecture, and data communications at Kennesaw State University. Michael holds an MS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Emory University and a BS in Computer Science from Kennesaw State University. Michael co-authored Information Security Illuminated (Jones & Bartlett, 2005), Security+ Lab Guide (Sybex, 2005), Computer Forensics JumpStart (Sybex, 2005). He also wrote and did on-camera delivery for LearnKey's CISSP Prep e-learning course. In his spare time Michael serves as an assistant Scoutmaster for his two sons' Boy Scout troop and assists his wife, Stacey, in homeschooling their sons.
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Class reviews

RicCurp
Oct 26, 2009

Virtualization

This has been very useful, but only because I've worked with a virtualization product already. Because I have a small network some of the exercises were overkill, but I got a good conceptual understanding of the implementation in a larger environment. This will definitely help me in planning the growth of our network.

luis761
Oct 22, 2009
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Virtualizing

Virtualizing is making a little sense especially in a Dev or test environment for now.
Completed this course and still having doubts on implementation. It would be beneficial for attendees to have access to a virtual lab to implement this strategy and see how it would work using a Windows or Linux based OS

djo2176
Apr 20, 2009

Virtualize

I find in the present course very helpful information which high lightened some concepts previously learned in a virtualization course from a particular vendor. This course is highly recommended to all who are taking a first step in virtualization.

Tomballtec
Mar 23, 2009

Virtualize

Since we are starting to Virtualize our whole server room when we move to AD this course makes sense to me.

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