Introduction to virtualization, Different approaches to virtualization, Hypervisors, Machine Image,

Virtual Machine $($VM$),$ Compute options in the cloud, Exploring IaaS with Compute Engine,

Configuring elastic apps with auto scaling, Basics of virtualization and implementation challenges.

System virtualization technologies$-$architectures and internals. KVM$,$ Xen, VMware. Amazon Elastic

Compute Cloud EC$2$ as computing service.

Memory virtualization$-$virtualization techniques, ballooning, deduplication and sharing. Network and

storage virtualization, Virtual machine migration and replication techniques pre$-$copy and post$-$copy

techniques, applicability to system availability.