Reference no: EM132863018
DEN301 Virtual Systems and Services - Sydney International School of Technology & Commerce
Assessment 1 - Individual technical report
Overview
In this assessment, you need to demonstrate your understandings of virtualization concept and the implementation process of a virtualization desktop application. You need to write a short literature review as well as a technical instruction on installing a virtual machine with an OS. The detailed specification of this assessment is provided as below.
Learning Outcome 1: Analyse the benefits of network and storage virtualisation is, and what benefits it can offer in the provision of IT services;
Learning Outcome 2: Critically evaluate the importance of different virtualisation technologies for X86 and Unix based platforms;
Learning Outcome 3: Explore, in a practical way, and report on the services offered by one or more virtualisation products;
Assessment Tasks
Task 1: Literature Review
Virtualization is technology that lets you create useful IT services using resources that are traditionally bound to hardware. More and more organizations have adopted virtualization as one of their core business strategies. In this task, you are required to produce a short literature review to discuss the virtualization concept. Specifically, your literature review should address the following points:
- What is virtualization? Critically evaluate why virtualisation is important for business today?
- Analyse and explain the role of hypervisor and virtual machine in virtualization.
- What are some contemporary virtualization practices?
o You need to supply real-world examples to support your discussions.
Your literature review length should be 1000 (+/- 10%) words. Valid references should be provided in correct APA format. A minimum of 10 formal research sources are required in this part. Formal resources included peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and industry magazines.
Task 2: Desktop Virtualisation System
In this task, you are required to demonstrate the ability to implement a desktop virtualization solution. You need to 1) use VMware Workstation Player to load a Linux OS OR 2) use virtual box to load a Windows OS. Please note that you are only required to do one of them. Specifically, you need to:
- Demonstrate how you install the workbench;
- Demonstrate how you load OS onto your workbench;
- Demonstrate the setting of your virtual desktop;
To demonstrate the above processes, you need to use screenshots as well as explanations of these screenshots (e.g. why you ticked that box? Why set this to 2GB?).
Depending on the OS that you are loading, you need to do the following to demonstrate the setting of your virtual desktop:
- For windows, you need to provide a screenshot of System Information Window and explain the information on it.
- For Linux, you need to open up your terminal and type this command "sudo lshw -short".
Provide a screenshot of the terminal and then explain the information there.
Attachment:- Virtual Systems and Services.rar