December Breakout session. Mike Zimmerman CIO and Exc Director of Macomb Community College

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1 December Breakout session. Mike Zimmerman CIO and Exc Director of Macomb Community College 1

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3 Thank you Mike. Hello everyone, what a great turn out. I very happy to talk to you today what we are currently doing. But, to be honest I told Mike, am really not that good at this sort of thing but what s lowly tech guy going to do when the CIO asked you to do something good thing he promised me a free lunch. I work to support academic desktops. My job, with several other guys, is to get classrooms computers labs ready for student use. We take a single system in a computer lab room. Install all that software they can think of which will be used during the next two terms and capture that master Ghost image, then push or deploy it out to all the other systems in room. That is as complex of tech fell a that I am. I am really don t know much about all the server end, networking, or programming end of computer science. Just enough to cause trouble for my coworkers. 3

4 Our topic is: Virtual Desktops for Instructional Support: A Cloud Based Solution. Andy come up with this title. I sort like this one instead. (added second line: I m just headed for the great OS biscuit in the sky, man. We had been going back and forth about doing virtualization project for about 2 years. Even did some testing with Sun s Thin Client. It was about June of this year MCC decided to try out a cloud solution. I asked this simple question. (add line three) Tell me the goal.. 4

5 Went something like this. Read this. 5

6 And he finished the conversation with this. 6

7 I was sure they had me confused 7

8 Or this guy? Yes master. I am not sure which? Wait, that s my twin brother. His idea of virtualization was something else entirely. I think.. Just hoping not to bring back sometime with a labeled abbey normal. 8

9 As tech guy I at times have to play system analyst and solution provider I need to really learn where the big concerns for the Learning Unit. 9

10 just have three problems 11

11 Instructor s spend too much time figuring out student computer problems It s not working the way you said. Too many unknown and various student computers Students have old Windows PC and Macintosh systems, too Not enough RAM to run local VMs. A system with only 512 RAM is not advised. 12

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14 Find a means and management console to at the very least meet some of those requirements. (then add logo graphics) Looked at the pay as you go services out there AWS Elastic Cloud Computing be one of the biggest. I thought perhaps using AWS EC2 with RightScale might be good much, or one of the other pay as you go cloud services. Back to research on Citric and Vmware website --- referenced several pay as you go providers too. From my past research and learning I know about Vmware Lab Manager, View4 and Citrix Desktop products. So, I had somewhat of idea what it might look like. Most of what I found was not designed well for training or educational classroom space too complex and design for a systems administrator point of reference. I am not say these are not great products are you folks may already having something going with them Remember this was some need to start small and be able to grow ---- quickly if necessary. 15

15 (Logo s come in with first bullet.) Every teacher want something different. Really, very hard to figure out. I know instructor who taught the Linux course 5 times in a row each time with a different book and different version of Linux. Not Martin of course. Student s home systems vary as widely Macintosh, Windows 2000 Win7, even some Linux. 16

16 So about 8 weeks later. You know Academic time isn t actually time nothing happens in two weeks! (dissolve up boxed graphic) Skytap website showed on the website exactly what I am was look for at least got my interest peaked. Look they even have a graphic with PC Off or a Desktop on. That what I know that is what I see when I walk into a classroom lab. 17

17 (Text build on slides one line at a time.) 18

18 (Bullets build one at time.) The vendor headquarters is out of state so all training was done via WebExe to a group of us at Macomb. I think we had two or three kick off sessions. Had a sit down with Professor Kohl - switching rolls for a few minutes. He being the student me being the teacher. He did the setup of 25 VMs for his own class or course. (build each dash as it goes.) We will show this in the demo / discuss time to follow. 19

19 (Text builds on screen one line at a time.) Here again I will show you more details of the Library of preconfigured OS. 20

20 Turn it over to Martin 21

21 Demo of Skytap. For second session. 22