Hypervisors assessment in education industry: Using OpenBRR methodology

摘要

In this modern era of computer technology, virtualization emerges as a solution to maximize the resource of computing. Education therefore also implements virtualization to help day-to-day activities, and they need to know which hypervisor may suit their activities. This paper describes the assessment using OpenBRR, including the result of the assessment, how do the OpenBRR methodology works and also how the data gathered by using qualitative interviews. The assessment covers several categories, taken from OpenBRR which related to the hypervisor operations in the educational institution, they are functionality, usability, performance, documentation, scalability and support. This assessment uses two open-source hypervisor that already implemented in the market, namely Proxmox Virtual Environment and Citrix Xen Server 6. As a result of assessment, both hypervisors shows good quality, can be seen from the BRR score calculated from normalizing the data and calculate into BRR score, a hypervisor may not good in all categories, but there are some categories that better inProxmox, and other categories are better in Citrix Xen Server.