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ITC314 Virtualisation Technologies : Solution Essays

Management

QUESTIONS:

Task

Overview
This assessment item requires you to produce a short report by investigating and advising a company on some key topics and aspects of the use of virtualisation technologies.

Task
ACL Realty is a large real estate firm. Their core competence is their understanding of the real estate market, and their understanding of their customers and the customer needs.

Their current IT support staff have had little exposure to virtualisation and it has been decided that you need to train them in some basic use of virtualisation.

You will need to download the following software:

  • VirtualBox 5.2.4 or later from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  • Ubuntu 16.04.03 or later, from https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
  • PowerISO 7.0 or later from http://www.poweriso.com/download.php

You are to produce an instruction manual that describes:

  1. How to install VirtualBox on a PC. This instruction manual must:
    1. Describe all the steps that are required to install VirtualBox 5.2.x on a PC or Mac.
    2. Include screen shots of each step of the process, along with any explanatory text required to ensure that the user can follow the instructions without any problems.
  2. How to create a VM in VirtualBox that runs a specified operating system. The operating system to be installed is Ubuntu 16.04.3, or later. This part of the instruction manual must:
    1. Describe how to mount the Ubuntu .iso file as a virtual drive using PowerISO (or similar software),
    2. Describe how to create a Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox. This description must include:
      1. Screen shots of each step of the VM creation process, and
      2. Full explanatory text so that a user could follow the instructions without problems.
    3. Describe how you would do basic VM management on the Ubuntu VM, such as increase RAM and disk size.

Your instruction manual should be specific for the machine and operating system on which you are installing VirtualBox. So if your personal machine is a Windows 10 machine, or a Mac, then your instruction manual should concentrate on that particular OS only.

You are not required to run anything on the Ubuntu VM that you create.

 

Rationale

This assessment consists of three questions assessing the basic understanding of virtualisation and related concepts. This assessment covers the following learning outcomes:

  • be able to list and explain the importance of different virtualisation technologies for x86 and UNIX based platforms;
  • be able to evaluate which virtualisation technology should be used in a given set of requirements; and

be able to discuss and evaluate the requirements for effective VM management.

 

Task

Overview
This assessment item requires you to produce a short report by investigating and advising a company on some key topics and aspects of the use of virtualisation technologies.

Task
ACL Realty is a large real estate firm. Their core competence is their understanding of the real estate market, and their understanding of their customers and the customer needs.

Their current IT support staff have had little exposure to virtualisation and it has been decided that you need to train them in some basic use of virtualisation.

You will need to download the following software:

  • VirtualBox 5.2.4 or later from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  • Ubuntu 16.04.03 or later, from https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
  • PowerISO 7.0 or later from http://www.poweriso.com/download.php

You are to produce an instruction manual that describes:

  1. How to install VirtualBox on a PC. This instruction manual must:
    1. Describe all the steps that are required to install VirtualBox 5.2.x on a PC or Mac.
    2. Include screen shots of each step of the process, along with any explanatory text required to ensure that the user can follow the instructions without any problems.
  2. How to create a VM in VirtualBox that runs a specified operating system. The operating system to be installed is Ubuntu 16.04.3, or later. This part of the instruction manual must:
    1. Describe how to mount the Ubuntu .iso file as a virtual drive using PowerISO (or similar software),
    2. Describe how to create a Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox. This description must include:
      1. Screen shots of each step of the VM creation process, and
      2. Full explanatory text so that a user could follow the instructions without problems.
    3. Describe how you would do basic VM management on the Ubuntu VM, such as increase RAM and disk size.

Your instruction manual should be specific for the machine and operating system on which you are installing VirtualBox. So if your personal machine is a Windows 10 machine, or a Mac, then your instruction manual should concentrate on that particular OS only.

You are not required to run anything on the Ubuntu VM that you create.

Rationale

This assessment consists of three questions assessing the basic understanding of virtualisation and related concepts. This assessment covers the following learning outcomes:

  • be able to list and explain the importance of different virtualisation technologies for x86 and UNIX based platforms;
  • be able to evaluate which virtualisation technology should be used in a given set of requirements; and

be able to discuss and evaluate the requirements for effective VM management.

 

Presentation

The report should be submitted as a single MS Word document with all images embedded in the document.

Submissions in in *.zip, *.rar or any other format will not be marked.

The report presentation structure is:

Cover page

  • Title of Report
  • Student Name and Student ID
  • Student Email address

Main Report
This section should contain main body of the report. It should discuss all tasks / challenges asked in the case study. You should have sub-sections that answers each task. Support your answers with solid literature (in-text citations), diagrams and figures (if applicable). All diagrams and figures must have an appropriate caption.

Reference List
You must cite your references using the APA 6th edition referencing style for all material you have used as sources for the content of your work.

Glossary (optional)
A glossary should assist the reader in understanding any technical terms used in the report. Use a generally accepted source for the definition of the terms and include appropriate referencing.

 

ANSWERS:

 

1. Virtual Box installation on a PC

.1. Description of the steps for the installation of virtualBox 5.2

Step 1: The user needs to open the website of virtual box using the internet browser and download the setup file of virtual box

Step 2: Current the 5.2 version is not available for windows host and thus the older builds should be opened.

Step 3: The virtulaBox 5.2 is selected for downloading and it is redirected to the following page

Step 4: The windows hosts x86/AMD64 is selected for starting the download on the computer.

Step 5: For the installation the download location is required to be opened and double click is made on the .EXE file for starting the installation.

Step 6: For the installation of the virtual box the installation interface is navigated by clicking on the next option for three times and finally clicking the yes option and starting the installation on clicking the install option provided in the interface.

Step 7: The install option should be clicked when a prompt menu appears and clicking on the install option would allow the virtual box to finish its installation.

Step 8: The finish option should be clicked for finishing the installation and on selection of the checkbox it would start virtual box automatically on clicking the finish button.

 

2. Creation of Virtual Machine (Ubuntu)

2.1. Description to mount Ubuntu .iso file

Power ISO is used for mounting the Ubuntu ISO file into a virtual drive and for thie the following steps are performed.

Step 1: The main interface should be opened by clicking on the icon on the desktop and the iso file is mounted using the mountoption.

Step 2: The mount option at the tool bar can be used for mounting the iso file by browsing the path of the file or the director.

 

2.2. Description to create a Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox

2.2.1. Screenshot of each step

Step 1: The new option in virtual box is selected for creating a new virtual machine and its name is provided as Ubuntu. Its type and version is also selected for creation of the VM and the next option is clicked.

Step 2: In the next step memory is allocated to the virtual machine, here 1024 MB is allocated.

Step 3: in the third step the 10 Gb hard disk size is allocated for the installation of Ubuntu and a create a virtual hard disk option is selected.

Step 4: The hard disk file type is selected as VDI for proceeding with the installation.

Step 5: The storage on the physical hard disk is set to dynamically allocate for adoption of the increase in the virtual hard disk space in the virtual machine.

Step 6: The file location and the size of the hard and the location of installation of the hard disk is mentioned for starting the installation and the create option should be clicked.

Step 7: The created machine should be double clicked for starting the installation and the drive where the Ubuntu is mounted should be selected for proceeding with the next step.

Step 8: The install Ubuntu option should be selected.

Step 9: The download updates while installing option is selected for installing the latest version of Ubuntu.

Step 10: The Erase disk and install Ubuntu option is selected for starting a fresh installation and install now option is selected.

Step 11: A pop up message appears for proceeding with the installation.

Step 12: The time zone is selected for setting the clock.

Step 13: The keyboard layout option is selected for mapping the keys and the continue option is selected for the last step.

Step 14: The details of the uses and the password are inputted for setting up the user account.

Step 15: It takes some time for installation and after completion of the installation a restart option pops up and it should be restarted for the using the virtual machine.

 

2.3. Basic virtual machine management on ubuntu

For the management of the virtual machine “Ubuntu” the settings option is selected and on selecting the system option the base memory can be increased for allocating more ram for increase the performance of the virtual machine. On clicking the processor option more than one core can be allocated to the virtual machine.

 

Bibliography

REFRENCE

Srinivasa, K. G., & Singh, A. (2017). Hands-On Guide to Virtual Box. Design and Use of Virtualization Technology in Cloud Computing, 194.

Sinha, S. (2017). Installing Virtual Box. In Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python (pp. 9-11). Apress, Berkeley, CA.

Masood, A., Sharif, M., Yasmin, M., & Raza, M. (2015). Virtualization tools and techniques: Survey. Nepal Journal of Science and Technology, 15(2), 141-150.

PowerISO – Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive, DAA File. (2018). Poweriso.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018, from https://www.poweriso.com/download.php

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