Create and Maintain a Shared Virtual Machine Image Library
Automate the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-machine system configurations with VMware Lab Manager. With its shared image library and shared pool of virtualized servers, VMware Lab Manager lets you efficiently store and share multi-machine configurations across teams and geographies.
Rapidly Provision any Environment with a Single Click of the Mouse
Eliminate the painstaking hours-long process of gathering machines, installing operating systems, installing and configuring applications and establishing inter-machine connections. With a single click, you can provision multi-tier systems nearly instantly with VMware Lab Manager. You can also give users self-service access to the image library, allowing them to fulfill their own provisioning needs while leaving IT in control of user management, storage quotas and server deployment policies—achieving the best of both worlds.
Reduce Capital and Operating Costs
Consume resources as they are needed instead of maintaining multiple systems that are only used sporadically. VMware Lab Manager lets you pool and share resources to meet the needs of users resulting in maximum utilization—and increased cost savings.
Features
Multi-Machine Configurations
- Create multi-machine configurations in seconds using machine templates - no limit on machine count, no manual adjustments
- View configurations in use with thumbnail console views, public-private scoping and list filtering
- Act on machines in a configuration as a unit: suspend, multi-snapshot, revert to, shutdown, turn on, turn off, suspend, reset, deploy, undeploy, clone, capture to library, and modify properties
- Share templates and multi-machine configurations between users
- Get LiveLink capability - URL-based sharing of captured live configurations - "send me a LiveLink"
- Interact with all configuration consoles side-by-side on a single browser page
- Set up machines in a configuration to boot in controlled sequence
Configuration Library
- Check out of configurations with memory and CPU state preserved nearly instantaneously
- Enjoy simultaneous use of library configurations by multiple users without changing MAC and IP addresses or SID, using VMware's network fencing
- Maximize library entries per storage server due to efficient storage compression algorithms
- Control settings for public and private library entries
- Set up public-private scoping and list filtering of library
Media Library
- Store all development and test media in a central repository
- Tag media with descriptive attributes
- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share
- Easily make media available to VMware-managed virtual machines
- Implement public-private scoping and list filtering of library
Deployment
- Initiate deployment from your browser- or web service
- Copy from or execute from storage server
- Configurate machine deployment granularity
- Set up automatic load balancing of machines deployed on host servers
- Get Side-by-side execution of cloned configurations across physical server boundaries, even when IP addresses duplicated on a subnet
- Select your provisioning heuristic - rapid start, maximized performance
- Set lease times to automatically undeploy expired configurations
Machine Templates
- Instantly create new machines from templates with distinct personalization- automated assignment of MAC and IP addresses, and SID (for Windows systems)
- Create new templates via cloning and modification of existing templates
- Import pre-existing VM images for use as templates
- Automatically install mouse and keyboard enhancements for VMs
- Set up optional Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) capability for storage and management of existing machines
- Configure public-private scoping and list filtering of templates
Resource Management
- Automatically track and issue IP addresses
- Manage storage server setup with add, delete, refresh, modify properties
- Configure managed servers with add, delete, refresh, agent upgrade, remove from service, modify properties
- Set expiration dates for unused configurations to be removed from storage
- Quickly shift virtual machines off a managed server so it can be taken down for maintenance
- Display a graphical view of disk space consumption and a configuration dependency tree
Monitoring
- See an active unified "in motion" view of server pool and VM operations
- Ata-a-glance visibility over utilization, performance and activity
- Drill-down on server, configuration and machine details
- View all deployed machines
- View events and job logs
Web Services and Command Line Interface (Automation API)
- Full programmatic control of capture-and-restore operations
- Out-of-the-box automation with leading test automation tools
- Standards-based interface (SOAP, WSDL, HTTP)
- Sample .NET and Java code illustrating use of APIs
Administration and Security
- User, permission and quota management
- Out-of-the-box support for LDAP
- Administrator role assignment to multiple users
- User self-managed preferences
- Context-sensitive on-screen help
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