Virtualization solutions for higher education purposes

Utilization of virtualization and cloud computing technologies is very topical. A large number different of technologies, tools and software solutions exists. Successful adoption of this kind of solution may effectively support the education of specialized topics such as programming, operating system, computer networks, security and many others. This solutions offers remote access, automated deployment of infrastructure, API or virtualized study environment etc. The goal of this paper is to explore the broad number of virtualization technologies and proposed the solution which deals with the analysis, design and practical implementation of the virtual laboratory that can serve as an educational tool.