CODE 86800 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 COMPUTER SCIENCE 10852 (LM-18) - GENOVA 6 cfu anno 2 COMPUTER SCIENCE 10852 (LM-18) - GENOVA 6 cfu anno 2 COMPUTER ENGINEERING 11160 (LM-32) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-INF/05 LANGUAGE English TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course provides the foundations of the main virtualization technologies at the state of the art. In detail, the course focuses on several types of virtualization, like Storage-level, OS-level, Application-level, and Enterprise-level virtualization. The course is mostly practical, with the aim to teach the student how to deal with current virtualization technologies to build actual virtualized architectures. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course provides the foundations of the main virtualization technologies at the state of the art. In detail, the course focuses on several types of virtualization, like Storage-level, OS-level, Application-level, and Enterprise-level virtualization. The course is mostly practical, with the aim to teach the student how to deal with current virtualization technologies to build actual virtualized architectures. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Understand the technological basis related to virtualization. 2. Grasp the basic concepts at the basis of virtualization as well as understanding its pervasiveness in actual application scenarios. 3. Learn and use the basic concepts to build virtualized environments. 4. Implement and manage a realistic virtualized environment. PREREQUISITES Operating systems, Computer networks, basic of programming and scripting. TEACHING METHODS Frontal lessons and practicals, uniformly distributed (i.e., 50%-50%) SYLLABUS/CONTENT 1. Foundations of virtualization and its application: hypervisor, CPU-level, and I/O-level virtualization, foundations of Cloud computing, Introduction to KVM. 2. OS-level virtualization: Fundamentals, Docker suite. 3. Storage-level virtualization: Block, File, and Object storage, distributed file-systems, and software defined storage. 4. Enterprise-level virtualization: basics of load balancing and highly available systems. Provisioning. Orchestration. Infrastructure-as-Code. 5. Public cloud infrastructure: introduction to the paradigm and its applications. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY The teacher will provide slides, scientific and technical papers throughout the course. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD ENRICO RUSSO Ricevimento: On appointment by email Exam Board ENRICO RUSSO (President) LUCA VERDERAME GIACOMO LONGO (President Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START https://courses.unige.it/11160/p/students-timetable Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Final project with discussion. ASSESSMENT METHODS Critical discussion and demo of the project, in order to assess the level of understanding and knowledge of the student.