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ERIC Number: EJ1455899
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-1049-4820
EISSN: EISSN-1744-5191
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Remote DasaLAB: Datacenter as a Laboratory for Remote Learning
Interactive Learning Environments, v32 n10 p7257-7277 2024
The pandemic situation banned the presence of teachers and students in the classrooms disrupting the typical teaching process. Videoconferencing services have been used successfully for lectures, but they are insufficient for hands-on laboratories where the physical presence is a requirement (i.e. to access specific hardware). Enabling remote access to the equipment allows to overcome this issue, but the students must share resources (temporarily or physically) and lack full control on the equipment. This is not optimal for some subjects, such as the practical labs on datacenter management, which are increasingly being added into the IT higher education curriculum. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a distributed laboratory environment, so-called Remote DasaLAB, to create and deploy virtual datacenters using the student's owned resources to support the practical training of students in remote (or hybrid) mode. This environment is flexible, cheap, easy to implement with available commodity resources (the students' computers) and provides full control over the platform. We also present a specific use case on leveraging Remote DasaLAB for the practical assignments of an Operating Systems subject, in which the students build a virtual datacenter composed of multiple nodes and can properly run a containerized application distributed in these nodes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain (Barcelona)
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