Virtual Systems Architecture and Deployment

Catalog description

This class will take the students through the evolution of virtualization including various host-based virtualization, bare metal hypervisors and server virtualization. Elements of software defined networking and cloud computing will also be discussed. This course also explores the architectures and operational techniques that support the operation of web scale applications including service oriented architectures, micro-service architectures and hybrid public/private cloud architectures. The course also deals with modern storage architectures as they support web scale applications.