Providing students 24/7 virtual access and hands-on training using vmware GSX server

Authors:
Benjamin Villanueva;Brett Cook
Affiliations:
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI;University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
Venue:
Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, offers Management Computer Systems courses to provide practical experience in Networking Systems Administration. We need to provide each student with an accessible environment to work on their projects both from on campus and remotely We have successfully implemented a cost effective and flexible solution that closely resembles real life environment, easily adaptable to the changing needs of the courses, without the need of purchasing and managing a large number of workstation.This paper shows how the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater provides this virtual learning space.