NSWI150 - Virtualization and Data Centers

• Introduction and related courses (cz) (pdf)

Slides

Expect significant updates and extensions during the semester.

• Virtual environments - Motivation and approaches (pdf)
• Container - Technical principles (pdf)
• Hypervizors - Technical principles (pdf)
• Data centers, SAN
• Virtualization and infrastructure

Advanced slides

Not required for exam. Mostly in Czech.

• Hypervizors - Advanced technical details (pdf)

Video recordings of some lectures (Czech)

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Related courses

• Summer term 2026/27 NSWI152 - Cloud Application Development
• Summer term 2027/28 NSWI151 - Virtualization Infrastructure Administration

Annotation and syllabus

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the key concepts behind virtualization, containers, and their real world applications in data centers. The classes will cover a broad range of related topics, including classification of various virtualization 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, containers.
• Linux containers and the underlying technology.
• Virtual machines, hardware-assisted virtualization, paravirtualization, emulation.
• Data center hardware.
• Cluster, network load balancing, high availability, fault tolerance.

Resources