NEW ERA UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

NARRATIVE REPORT

Name : Jane G. Macasa

Year & Course: 4 th yr & BS Computer Science

Topic : Server Virtualization

Speaker: Mr. Jeff Dela Pena

Date and Time : February 08, 2010 1:00-4:00pm

Venue: Studio A

I. Introduction

We the 4th year BS Computer Science taking up the Cs Technology

subject are required to have four topics of seminar regarding in I. T fields

or in Technology. Our Professors organized a seminar for us. They invite

speakers from different companies. In our first day of seminar the first

topic they discuss is about the Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery

and then the Server Virtualization.

II. Knowledge / Learning Acquired

I have knowledge in virtualization because we use it in our Networking

subject when we are in 3rd year level but honestly when I heard the topic

that the next speaker discussed I was not really familiar with the server

virtualization. Based on what I learned virtualization is virtually to have

two or more virtual computing environments, running in different

operating system and application in one piece of hardware. I learned that

by the use of virtualization you can minimize the use of the hardware

because you can use the partitioning which can run virtual machine in a

single server. Like the speaker said that many large company use virtual

server because it can minimize the space will be use by the company,

reduce power consumption, resource allocation and high availability. I

learned the two types of Virtualization the host-base which has operating

system before the virtualization layer. While the base-metal virtualization

has no operating system before the virtualization layer.

III. Observation

During our seminar I observed that our speaker have enough

knowledge about the topic he is discussing. I also observed that they

have freebies for the students to participate in their discussion and

question answer portion. I observed that all students are interested to

the topic discussed and participating with the speaker and listen

enough to learn.

IV. Recommendations / Suggestions

I suggest that they provide a hand outs for all the participants of the

seminar so that the participants or all students have notes to be compile

and use it while the seminars going on so that they don’t need to copy

instead they will focused on listening to the speaker.