Jeremeh C.

Pande BSIT 302A

1. What is a nested virtual machine? (5 points)

- Nested virtual machine is about running virtual machine inside the virtual
machine. It does not explicitly bind to the physical computer underlying it.
It is a technique used for testing new operating systems.

2. What are the steps in setting up a lab environment? (10 points)

 Install OS for physical machine (Ubuntu or CentOS)

- Installing an operating system for the physical server.

 Enable nested virtualization

- Enabling nested virtualization for Ubuntu because it was disabled by
default.

 Create two bridge

- Two bridge because one bridge is used to carry management traffic and
the second bridge is used to carry storage traffic.

 Create two VM used to install CNA

- Used for installing critical node analysis (CNA) nodes.

 Enable iSCSI Target and NFS

- Enable two storage that is related to storage services. Internet Small
Computer Systems Interface (iSCI) is used to simulate Storage Area
Network (SAN) storage. Network File System (NFS) is used to simulate
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) storage.

 Enable File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server

- Enabling FTP server backups all management data of FusionCompute.