Pengembangan Virtual Desktop Infrastructure dengan Proxmox VE dan Implementasi Apache Guacamole

Oleh :
Rizqi Andri Wijaya - V3423077 - Sekolah Vokasi

The rapid development of the information technology industry requires vo-cational education graduates to not only be proficient in coding but also possesscomprehensive competence in the deployment phase and production-scale servermanagement. However, the lack of facilities for safe experimentation, along withthe high administrative burden and maintenance costs of conventional physicalcomputer laboratories, remain major obstacles. This research aims to design andbuild a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) system utilizing Proxmox VE as thevirtualization hypervisor and Apache Guacamole as the remote desktop gateway.The system was developed using a service-oriented approach, featuring aninteractive frontend built with React JS and a robust backend based on the Laravelframework. To optimize server performance when handling high workloads, thesystem leverages Redis and Laravel Horizon to process background jobs asynchro-nously. Real-time monitoring of server resource metrics is visualized on the dash-board using the InfluxDB time-series database.Implementation and testing results demonstrate that the VDI infrastructuresuccessfully provides an isolated and independent computing environment (sand-box) for students to conduct server simulations securely. Access to the system isclientless, allowing students to manage virtual machines directly through a webbrowser from anywhere. For the institution, this platform streamlines laboratoryoperations through centralized user management, automated virtual machine provi-sioning, and integrated system monitoring.