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anjan42

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Not sure if this is the right section to post . I need to submit a final year project based on virtualization , it should be of aproxx 10 thousand words . My plan is to install a vmware esxi hypervisor on my existing laptop and then on top of it install multiple OS including Ubuntu ( as host machine ) , PFSense ( for firewalling and NAT working as edge device ) and I will add one more machine working as email server and show that as a file and database server too . I have video trainings from CBT Nuggets , Lynda related to VMWARE virtualization platform so that would be pretty helpful . Note that i wont be installing ESXi on my laptop directly , it has a windows 7 and in that it would have vmware workstation , inside the vmware workstation i would have esxi which would then have all those softwares . My current laptop is Lenevo T400 with 500 GB of HDD and 6GB ram , it has a core2duo 2.2ghz ( P8400 ) processor i believe , it would be nested VM case I believe .

The examiner did say that I should focus on my own terms rather than going product oriented but I think just a few of the starting section would be of terms and technologies and further it would become product oriented .

Can anyone here please give me some comments , guides , samples . If the above specs of my laptop wont work on this can you please provide me some hosting companies address from where i can rent a dedicated server for a month and make my project , there are a lot of hosting providers out there but i am not sure if they support the installation of vmware exi .



Thanks .
 
I don't think your processor supports SLAT/EPT for nested virtualization
 
10k words is like a 30 page paper, double spaced. That's a lot to write if you don't have a good idea what to aim for. What is the objective? Showing that virtualization is a good idea? Explaining a virtualization setup? Applying virtualization to solve some existing problem?

Do you have prior VMware and/or virtualization experience?

Need more info really.
 
thanks for the replies . Are you sure this processor wont support nested VMs ?

Yes i do have a good understanding of computing , i have used vmware workstation a lot but i have never used esxi . I have downloaded a couple of virtualization and vmware books however I am a bit concerned if i would be able to cover up 10K words with this . I am a CCNA and VCA-DCV .
 
I think that this is a case where the Programming Students. READ THIS! applies when you replace "programming" with "virtualization".

I think that there are several factual problems with the proposal content. Then there's the issue of the writing per se, but for that you can just head over to the Writing Center at your school and they can help you correct those issues.

On the one hand it's good that young people are interested in virtualization, on the other hand the learning curve to do it properly can be pretty steep and both your proposal and this thread indicate to me that it's too early along that learning curve for you to turn this into a final project.

My suggestion to you is to pick a network related final project instead where you seem to have a lot more prior knowledge already. You could probably submit a design for an SMB where they have VOIP, DMZ, internal networks, WiFi, maybe WLAN, and it shouldn't be too hard to fill 30 pages which stuff you already know.
 
anjan42 said:
thanks for the replies . Are you sure this processor wont support nested VMs ?

Yes i do have a good understanding of computing , i have used vmware workstation a lot but i have never used esxi . I have downloaded a couple of virtualization and vmware books however I am a bit concerned if i would be able to cover up 10K words with this . I am a CCNA and VCA-DCV .
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think EPT was introduced in the Nehalem processors and onwards.
 
thanks for the replies guys . i need to submit this project by end of august so i cant change the project topic now :( . i have downloaded a couple of vmware and virtualization books which would be ofcourse helpful .

if this stuff is not supported on processor i have can you please recommend me a hosting provider where i can get some server and do all this , better if they charge on per hour basis rather than per month .

please advise
 
You may want to check if there is a local VMWare Partner company that may have a Demo Lab to play with. They might also be a good source of help on subject matter as well. Also, check with your school if it has any test labs where you could build something to use for your project. Way back when I was working on some certs (back when everyone wanted MCPs and such); we had a lab where you could reserve a computer for testing and such in prep for your MCPs (way before virtualization hit big), don't know if any schools still do that or not.

Running ESXi inside vm workstation was possible in 3.5, and I think i've heard of people doing it in 4, but it's very ugly, and everything will run VERY slow. If you aren't going overboard, you can actually run ESXi on a fairly affordable computer natively. I've run it on C2d's with 975X motherboards and a simple sata hard drive without issues, just make sure you give it tons of memory. You could probably build a fairly decent low end lab machine for $2-300 if you use older used parts.
 
Hi Guys ,

For this purpose I rented a server from a hosting company . I have a few more questions would be glad if you can help me in answering . I have already completed 6 thousand words of this project till now .

moderator gave me following points after I proposed the plan

-could form the basis of an acceptable project at final year undergraduate level
-work achieves and maintains its expected breadth and depth
-care should be applied to the derivation, design and implementation of the testing of the final project
-external sources of material should be cited, referenced and reported
-candidate is reminded that the "value added" nature of his contribution is sought, rahter than the funcationailty inherent in the (software and application) technology employed.
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Following is a list of topics on which I have disussed on the project till now . Most important one here would be part 5 i.e. Implementation

1) What is datacentre

2) What is virtualization

3) What is Hypervisor?
-Type 1 Hypervisor
-Type 2 Hypervisor

4) Hardware for project

5) Implmentation part using vmware esxi 5.5

6) Advance features for HA
- vmotion
- HA
- fault tollerance
-DRS

7 )Virtualization Security
- discussed real mode , protected mode , ring 0
- vm sprawl
-Limited check into Virtual Environments:
-vm escape
- syslog




Examiner has asked me to provide my value added nature of contribution rather than funcationality inherent because of which I think they might not like my idea to include topics like vmotion , DRS etc and also because project is heavily focused on part 5 i.e. implemenation which is priopriaty thing as I am using vmware .

Can you please recommend me a couple of generic virtualization related topics on which I can write to extend the project . Please note that this is a distance learning course because of which I have limited access to instructors and thats the reason I want to get comments from people working in visualization industry .
 
For value add you need to think of what you're providing a customer or business. They don't care about vMotion. DRS, or HA directly. They care that they can do maintenance without an outage. They can fail a host and automatically and easily recover. They care that they are saving money thanks to server consolidation. The underlying feature list doesn't matter..it's what they get out of it over a non-virtualized datacenter that matters.
 
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