NWIT 204 - Network Virtualization and System Administrator

Introduces concepts and skills necessary to install, configure, manage and support a virtual network infrastructure. Students will learn why companies are steadily virtualizing, the differences between technical alternatives, and how to optimize a virtualized environment. Lecture topics will be reinforced through hands-on exercises involving the installation, configuration, and management of both virtual workstations and servers. PREREQUISITE(S): NWIT 200 or NWIT 203 or consent of department. Four hours each week.

4 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Describe where virtualization fits into cloud architecture.
Identify devices and services used to support communications across networks.
Analyze the needs of an organization and identify opportunities to utilize virtualization.
Design, implement, manage, and maintain a virtual storage system.
Install, configure and manage virtual workstations and virtual servers.
Use a packet capturing tool to manage and monitor resources.
Configure high availability and fault tolerance in a virtual environment.
Recognize common security attacks on virtual environments and describe one or more measures to secure a virtual server environment.

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