UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION Virtualization
and cloud computing – Need of virtualization ᎓ cost, administration, fast
deployment, reduce infrastructure cost ᎓ limitations Types of hardware
virtualization: Full virtualization – partial virtualization – para
virtualization – Desktop virtualization: Software virtualization
᎓ Memory virtualization – Storage virtualization ᎓ Data virtualization ᎓
Network virtualization

UNIT II: HYPERVISORS AND VIRTUAL MACHINES Server
Virtualization: Understanding Server Virtualization, types of server
virtualization, Virtual Machine basics, types of virtual machines,
hypervisor concepts and types
UNIT III: VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS Understanding
Microsoft᎙s Virtualization solutions: Microsoft᎙s Infrastructure
Optimization Model, Virtualization and the Infrastructure Optimization
Model, Benefits of Virtualization, Achieving the Benefits of Datacenter
Virtualization, Achieving the Benefits of Client Virtualization,
Achieving the Benefits of Cloud Virtualization
UNIT IV: MIGRATING INTO A CLOUD Introduction, Challenges
while migrating to Cloud, Broad approaches to migrating into the cloud –
why migrate -deciding on cloud migration, the Seven-step model of
migration into a cloud, Migration.
UNIT V: RISKS AND MITIGATION Enterprise cloud computing
paradigm, relevant Deployment Models for Enterprise Cloud
Computing, Adoption and Consumption Strategies, issues for enterprise
applications on the cloud.
TEXTS:
1. David Marshall, Wade A. Reynolds, Advanced Server
Virtualization: VMware andMicrosoft Platform in the Virtual Data
Center, Auerbach
2. Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the
Way You Work andCollaborate Online – Michael Miller – Que
2008
REFERENCE MATERIAL(s)
1. Publications, 2006. Cloud Computing (Principles and Paradigms),
Edited by RajkumarBuyya, James Broberg, Andrzej Goscinski,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011

2. Cloud computing a practical approach – Anthony T.Velte ,
Toby J. Velte RobertElsenpeter, TATA McGraw- Hill , New
Delhi ᎓ 2010