Virtualization: history and interests
Types of
VMware virtualization : presentation, products and architectures

Product overview: VMware Workstation, VMware Player
Virtual machines; creation, installation, use Group
management
Network configuration: bridge, NAT, host only, …

Workshop: Creation of a virtual machine, installation and tests

Product presentation: VMware Server (eg GSX)
Installation and configuration: administration interface, tools
Support of multiprocessor architectures
Creation of virtual machines and templates
Network support options, fault tolerance

Lab: Installation and configuration of VMware Server

CPU sharing between the different virtual machines
Allocation of memory, of one or more CPUs, virtual disks or network interfaces
Backup, restoration, migration and cloning of virtual machines
Clustering: policies, prerequisites, implementation
Virtual machine security and the host server VMware scripting API
supervision
: presentation, implementation

Workshop: Implementation of backups and restoration, memory management, …

VMware ESX hypervisor concept: presentation,
VMware ESX vs VMware Server architecture
Installation and implementation of virtual machines

Workshop: Installation of VMware ESX, configuration and implementation of VMs