DEN301 – Virtual Systems and Services 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. Important information Please include SISTC’s assessment cover page at the beginning of the submitted work This assessment weights 30% of your final grade There are two tasks in this assessment, you need to submit one document covering both tasks. The due date of this assessment is Sunday 11pm Week 6. Submitting your work late will attract a 10% reduction of mark for each day beyond the due date. A delay of more than 5 days will result in being granted a grade of zero (0). It is recommended to plan time appropriately and start your assessment early which will give you time to gain feedback from your lecturer and do well. Learning Outcomes Assessed The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment task: LO1. Analyse the benefits of network and storage virtualisation is, and what benefits it can offer in the provision of IT services; LO2. Critically evaluate the importance of different virtualisation technologies for X86 and Unix based platforms; LO3. 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. Submission Combine the answers of the two tasks into a word file and submit it to Moodle. Marking Criteria / Rubric Refer to the attached marking guide. General Assessment Requirement Incomprehensible submissions - Assessments provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills to achieve the required standard. To do this, assessment responses need to be both clear and easy to understand. If not, SISTC cannot determine that students have demonstrated their knowledge and skills. Assessments will, therefore, be marked accordingly including the potential for 0 (zero) marks where relevant. Check with marking rubric: Before submitting your assessment, you should check it against the assessment criteria and the marking rubric included in this specification to ensure that you have satisfactorily addressed all the criteria that will be used to mark your submission. Feedback Feedback will be supplied through Moodle. Authoritative results will be published on Moodle. Academic Misconduct To submit your assessment task, you must indicate that you have read and understood, and comply with, the Sydney International School of Technology and Commerce Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism policies and procedures. You must also agree that your work has not been outsourced and is entirely your own except where work quoted is duly acknowledged. Additionally, you must agree that your work has not been submitted for assessment in any other course or program. Assessment Marking Rubric: Criteria Fail Pass Credit Distinction High 0 - 49% 50% - 64% 65% - 74% 75% - 84% 85% - 100% Task 1 (70%) Explain virtualization concept (15%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to explain virtualization concept and its importance. Virtualization concept has been discussed with some information. The importance of virtualization in today’s business context has been discussed. No examples supplied. Virtualization concept is defined but the information is not precise nor complete. The importance of virtualization in today’s business context has been discussed with few examples. Virtualization concept is generally well defined. The importance of virtualization in today’s business context is demonstrated with some examples. Virtualization concept is excellently defined. The importance of virtualization in today’s business context is perfectly demonstrated with substantial examples. Explain hypervisor and virtual machine (15%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to explain hypervisor and virtual machine. Hypervisor has been discussed with some information. Virtual machine has been discussed with some information. The role of hypervisor in virtualization is discussed but the information is not precise nor complete. The role of virtual machine in virtualization is discussed but the information is not precise nor complete. The role of hypervisor in virtualization is generally well explained. The role of virtual machine in virtualization is generally well explained. The role of hypervisor in virtualization is excellently explained. The role of virtual machine in virtualization is excellently explained. Identify contemporary virtualization practices (15%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to identify contemporary virtualization practices. There are some random discussions around contemporary virtualization practices. Only 1-2 examples have been mentioned in just a few sentences. The main contemporary virtualization practices have been summarized but the information is unclear and is hard to access. A few examples have been mentioned. The main contemporary virtualization practices have been summarized in a structured way with some real applications. The main contemporary virtualization practices have been summarized in a structured way with abundant real applications. Evidence and depth of research (10%) Less than 4 appropriate and relevant titles read. 5-6 relevant titles read.. 7-8 relevant titles read. 8-9 relevant titles rea. 10 or more relevant titles read. Writing to audience (10%) Too much use of technical jargon. A large number of spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Some over-use of technical jargon. Several spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Appropriate use of technical jargon. Some spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Appropriate use of technical jargon. No spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Use of technical jargon minimised and defined when necessary. No spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Clarity of structure (5%) The structure of the report is unclear and is not logical. It does not address the main issues. Use of headings and charts unsatisfactory. The structure of the report is clear and logical in parts. It addresses most main issues. Use of headings and charts could have been improved. The structure of the report is clear, easy to read and logical, directly addressing most main issues. Suitable headings used and some use of graphics/charts. The structure of the report is clear, easy to read and logical, directly addressing all main issues. Suitable headings used throughout. Good use of graphics/charts. The structure of the report is clear, easy to read and logical, directly addressing all main issues and providing other relevant insights. Suitable headers used throughout. Powerful use of graphics/charts Task 2 (30%) Demonstrate the process to install a workbench (10%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to illustrate the process to install a workbench. The process to install a workbench has been demonstrated with some screenshots, but these screenshots do not capture the main stages in the installation process. There are some explanations of the screenshots, but the discussion logic is hard to access. The process to install a workbench has been demonstrated with some screenshots. There are lots of explanations of the screenshots, but the discussion logic is hard to access. The process to install a workbench has been demonstrated with lots of screenshots. Explanations of the screenshots are generally satisfactory. The process to install a workbench has been demonstrated with lots of details such as screenshots and associated explanations. Demonstrate the process to load an OS on a workbench (10%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to illustrate the process to install an OS. The process to install an OS has been demonstrated with some screenshots, but these screenshots do not capture the main stages in the installation process. There are some explanations of the screenshots, but the discussion logic is hard to access. The process to install an OS has been demonstrated with some screenshots. There are lots of explanations of the screenshots, but the discussion logic is hard to access. The process to install an OS has been demonstrated with lots of screenshots. Explanations of the screenshots are generally satisfactory. The process to install an OS has been demonstrated with lots of details such as screenshots and associated explanations. Explain hardware settings (10%) Little or no efforts have been demonstrated to Explain hardware settings. Some hardware is explained. The explanations have not too many details and the information is hard to access. Most major hardware is explained. The explanations have some details information is hard to access. All major hardware is explained. The explanations are generally satisfactory. All major hardware is explained. The explanations are sound and meaningful.