Course Summary

Fundamentals of Network Virtualization is a course on network virtualization principles and technologies published by Pluralsight Online Academy. This is a foundational course designed to introduce learners to the principles and technologies of network virtualization. The course covers the fundamentals of decoupling network services from hardware, enabling flexible, scalable, and efficient network infrastructures. Topics include virtual switches, software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and their applications in modern data centers and cloud environments.Network virtualization is used by server virtualization in the data center, desktop virtualization on your laptop, and yes, increasingly, it is used to virtualize the functionality of expensive and complex network equipment. Like server virtualization, network virtualization brings business agility, administrative efficiency, and cost savings. In this course, Fundamentals of Network Virtualization, you will see how you can do in software what was previously only possible with expensive routers and switches. Next, you will explore the benefits of network virtualization, including how you can achieve agility, efficiency, scalability, and availability with network virtualization. Finally, you will see network virtualization in action. By the end of this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the principles of network virtualization.