A Virtual Laboratory Environment for Tertiary Educational Institutions
Eduardo Mannarino Correia, Ricky Watson, Adriana Quintana, M. Isuru T. C. Perera · International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking · 2012
Computer laboratories at tertiary educational institutions need to be flexible and easy to manage, as they typically cater for a wide range of needs. This article describes how a particular virtual laboratory environment can be extended to include server-based virtualization. It explores some of the major technical challenges of implementing one particular hypervisor and associated management software, specifically to deploy a set of virtual machines that form part of a particular course, as this is one of the envisaged uses for this technology. It goes on to suggest a number of solutions and includes two scripts that can serve as templates for automating the creation and removal of sets of student virtual machines.