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Virtual System and Services

This 3-credit, 15-week course provides an introduction to virtual system and services. Students will learn to install, configure, manage, and deploy virtual servers and workstations using VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies. The hands-on course will cover creating and managing virtual machines, comparing virtualization platforms, building test environments, partitioning physical servers, and migrating to virtual machines. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, a midterm exam, participation, term project, presentations, and a final exam.

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Virtual System and Services

This 3-credit, 15-week course provides an introduction to virtual system and services. Students will learn to install, configure, manage, and deploy virtual servers and workstations using VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies. The hands-on course will cover creating and managing virtual machines, comparing virtualization platforms, building test environments, partitioning physical servers, and migrating to virtual machines. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, a midterm exam, participation, term project, presentations, and a final exam.

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University of Management and Technology

Course Outline
Course code: IT3717 Course title: Virtual System and Services

Program BS CS, BS IT

Credit Hours 3

Duration 15 weeks

Prerequisites

Resource Person Abdul Hannan

Counseling Timing Monday (11:30am to 12:30 pm), Tuesday (11:30am to 12:30 pm),
(Thursday ( 9am-10:30am),
(Room# 29 )

Contact [email protected], 0343-6995436

Chairman/Director signature………………………………….

Dean’s signature…………………………… Date………………………………………….


Learning Objectives:
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In this course you will be exposed to:
 Manage VMware and Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) technologies

 Leverage VMs to build testing, support, and training environments

 Partition physical servers to decrease operating costs

 Migrate from physical to virtual machines

Learning Methodology:
In this hands-on Introduction to Virtual System and Services course, you gain the knowledge and
skills to successfully install, configure, manage, and deploy virtual servers and workstations in your
organization. You will learn how to choose the proper virtual machine product for your
environment, partition servers to isolate applications, improve portability and migration, and
create entire testing labs within a single PC. Hands-on exercises provide practical experience with
scripting administrative tasks, customizing virtual networks and clustering virtual machines.

Grade Evaluation Criteria


Following is the criteria for the distribution of marks to evaluate final grade in
a semester.

Marks Evaluation Marks in percentage


Quizzes 10%
Assignments 5%
Mid Term 25%
Attendance & Class Participation 5%
Term Project 10%
Presentations 5%
Final exam 40%
Total 100%
Recommended Text Books:
1) Virtual Machines by James .E. Smith

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Reference Books:
1) Operating System concepts by Silberschatz and Galvin
2) Operating System by William Stalling

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Calendar of Course contents to be covered during semester

Course code: IT3717 Course title: Virtual System and Services

Week Course Contents Reference Chapter(s)

1 Introduction of virtualization Chap.1

Virtualization and its Concepts Chap. 3

3 Creating Virtual Machines Chap. 5

4 Virtual Machines and its Type Chap 7

5 Chap. 7 and chap 8


Comparing Workstation Products

6 Exploiting Virtual Workstation Functionality Chap. 8

Constructing and Developing test Environment Chap. 5

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8 Practice Drills

9 MID EXAM

10 Partitioning and Deploying Virtual Servers Chap. 9

11 Data Server Virtualization with ESXi

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12 Managing Microsoft Hyper-V Doc.

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14 Parallel Distribution and computing Doc.

15 Practice Drills

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