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Virtualisation

Intermediate → Advanced

Hypervisors, vCPUs, overcommit and live migration.

Outcome

Reason about shared compute, overcommit and the trade-offs behind every VM.

The ladder

Beginner
  • What virtualisation is
  • Type 1 vs type 2
  • Virtual disks
  • Virtual networking
Intermediate
  • vCPU scheduling & CPU ready
  • Memory overcommit & ballooning
  • Templates & clones
  • Snapshots
Advanced
  • Live migration
  • HA & resource scheduling
  • Containers vs VMs
  • Capacity planning

Example lessons

lesson

Why more vCPUs made it slower

lesson

Containers vs VMs

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Snapshot sprawl

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