Slides for talk in the School of IT at Bond about the recent changes to the Virtual IT Teaching Lab and the Bond IT Cloud equivalent for research use.

1. Current Advances with Virtualisation for Teaching and Research in the School of IT Michael Rees and Matt CarterSchool of IT Technology Infrastructure

2. Bond IT Infrastructure Virtual IT Teaching Lab, VITTL Bond IT Research Cloud Data Centre, DC Innovation Centre Topic maps machines Software Assurance listserv Ad hoc servers Teams, Comet Tuhs James

3. Virtual Machine Benefits a wide range of Windows, Windows Server and Linux images can be supported students granted administrative access to download, install and manage software packages each virtual machine has 24/7 access and supports long executions virtual machines are accessible everywhere on campus and Internet (maybe via Citrix) virtual machines can be replaced with new images in minutes teaching and support staff can share access for maintenance students present from their virtual machines in any teaching space on campus for assessment and feedback purposes

4. VITTL Architecture Internet ESX 4.0 VC Host 1 Host 3 SAN IBM 3850/3650 Host 2 Host 4

5. VITTL Advances Upgraded from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 Rewired VITTL [RAID driver problems currently] Reformatted SAN [6TB up from 1.5TB] Implemented Pacman virtual server: Linux and file sharing accounts rather than full virtual machine Moved all research from the VITTL to DC cluster ITCloudConnect to log into machines directly though the VMware viewer software rather than SSH or RDP

6. IT Teaching Support Running for 6 semesters Subject: web technologies, databases, software development, computational finance, business intelligence, security (24 in total) Mix of Windows, Windows Server and Linux images Sized for 150 student VMs, has supported up to 250 without problem http://vittlproject.pbworks.com/

7. VM Allocation by OS

8. Bond IT Research Cloud Industry Liaison DMZ Project Shares Bond direct Internet feed, before institutional proxy Throttled to 10 Mbps Central Information Services has oversight of Cloud proxy Clusters old servers for cloud VMs Allows direct access from Internet to physical machines, if needed

9. Bond IT Research Cloud

10. Low Cost

11. Summary Highly successful Runs independently of Info Services Still searching for low-cost VM management, creation/deployment solutions with automation Perfect environment for leased servers with constant rollover

12. Reminder Remember to remind students they have access to MSDN Academic Alliance Subscription for copies of: Windows 7 32/64bit Visual Studio 2010 Expression 3 Studio, Visio 2010 http://it.bond.edu.au See Matt for ELMS account