Authors:
Christian Baun
;
Martin Kappes
;
Henry-Norbert Cocos
;
Malte Koch
and
Maurizio Petrozziello
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Engineerung, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Nibelungeplatz 1, Frankfurt am Main D-60318, Germany
Keyword(s):
Virtual Teaching, Proxmox VE, CEPH, Teaching Computer Science, Asynchronous Teaching.
Abstract:
This paper describes a novel virtual platform for university teaching, which in particular allows the creation and use of complex IT infrastructures even for non-experts. Until now, complex network infrastructures in teaching have usually not been realizable virtually or physically with reasonable effort. However, they are essential to fundamental courses such as computer networks, distributed systems, or IT security. The platform described in this work enables a flexible and practical offer for lecturers, scientists, and students simultaneously by making complex IT infrastructures virtually available quickly and easily. It thus offers new possibilities for designing and utilizing virtual resources and is based exclusively on free software components. The project uses the hypervisor technology Proxmox Virtual Environment, which, together with the distributed storage solution CEPH as an object storage service, offers a virtualization platform for providing virtual resources. The succe
ssful use in computer science courses is demonstrated and evaluated. It is shown that the effort for setting up practical laboratories is signifficantly reduced by the virtual learning platform in contrast to the physical lab.
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