NSWI150 - Virtualization and Cloud Computing

• Introduction and related courses (cz)

Slides

• Virtual environments - Motivation and approaches (pdf)
• Container - Technical principles (pdf)
• Hypervizors - Technical principles (pdf)
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Design Patterns (cz)
• Data centers, SAN
• Virtualization and infrastructure
• Security and identity (resources)

Advanced slides

Not required for exam. Mostly in Czech.

• Hypervizors - Advanced technical details (pdf)

Related courses

• Summer term 2024/25 NSWI152 - Cloud Application Development
• Summer term 2025/26 NSWI151 - Virtualization Infrastructure Administration

Annotation and syllabus

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the key concepts behind virtualization and cloud computing systems and their real world applications. The classes will cover a broad range of related topics, including classification of various virtualization and cloud models, data center hardware, high availability and load balancing clusters, scientific computing and security risks of multi-tenancy. The knowledge in scope of the course NSWI120 - Principles of Computers is supposed!

• Virtualization taxonomy.
• Hardware-assisted virtualization, paravirtualization, emulation.
• Virtualization support on current hardware architectures and operating systems.
• Data center hardware.
• Cluster, network load balancing, high availability, fault tolerance.
• Private, public and hybrid cloud. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Cloud technologies and services, scalability. Execution models.
• Data management, MapReduce.
• Communication and network services, mobile services, high-performance computing.
• Identity in the cloud, identity federation, single sign-on, OpenID, SAML.
• Virtualization security risks.

Resources