Title
The Development and deployment of a remote virtual lab based on Amazon Cloud for networking courses
Abstract
Remote virtual laboratories had been implemented using different approaches. Universities have adopted such model mostly for the distance learners. Furthermore, such systems have been implemented internally and used in conjunction with their physical hands-on labs. Nevertheless, the introduction of Cloud Computing and the virtual platform environment offered by it can serves for the creation of new type of services. This thesis aims to use this new technology and develop a remote virtual laboratory that can be used by students for doing their hands-on lab in the networking courses at PUCMM. For this purpose the services used were the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as an infrastructure provider and the VMLogix Lab Manager as the management software for the use of the laboratory. The paper includes the development and deployment of two labs one in Windows and the other in Linux. Furthermore, the problems encountered and the outcomes are documented to serve as a base implementation guide for future laboratories using the Amazon Cloud Computing platform.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cloud computing; Virtual LANs; Educational technology
Publication Date
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Student Type
Graduate
Degree Name
Networking and System Administration (MS)
Department, Program, or Center
Computer Science (GCCIS)
Advisor
Border, Charles
Recommended Citation
Nunez, Emilio, "The Development and deployment of a remote virtual lab based on Amazon Cloud for networking courses" (2010). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/135
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
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