Develop, Build, and Test a Virtual Lab to Support a Vulnerability Training System

Abstract

A computer security virtual lab architecture was developed and tested for functionality and performance. Four Dell PowerEdge 1650, dual processor, blade servers were configured as host machines with VMware and VNC running on a Linux RedHat 9 Kernel. An Apache-Tomcat web server was configured as the external interface to lab users. Web content was created, the site was secured with SSL, and Java Servlet functionality was enabled. Host machine performance was tested under various load conditions. Analysis indicated that, for our architecture, the average host machine CPU load was ^12% while the average memory load was ^33%. We conclude that for the cost and space requirements of 5 1U blade servers we have configured an equivalent 20 computer lab. Performance tests show that the virtual lab could scale easily from 4-30 computers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427124

Entities

People

  • Coskun Kargin
  • Turgut Akgul

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Processing Units
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Information Systems
  • Network Computing
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)
  • Software Development
  • Transport Protocols
  • Web Browsers
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space