Key Features
- Unlock the power of VMware Infrastructure and VMware VirtualCenter in your lab with seamless support for flexible resource pools, high availability and resource scheduling.
- Provide dedicated or shared lab infrastructure to your entire organization with customized user roles and access rights from a central location
- Let users create, deploy and share complex system configurations with multiple physical and virtual network connections from a self-service portal controlled by IT
- Maintain a complete library of commonly used system environments for on-demand use
- Pool and share server, networking, storage and other resources among users (teams and individuals)
- Suspend and capture system configurations “in state”, or reset them to a previous “clean” state.
- Deploy multiple instances of the same configuration simultaneously for ultimate flexibility without causing any network conflict
- Efficiently move and share multi-machine configurations among users in local and remote locations
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
- Combine, split and selectively deploy configurations. This greatly increases the flexibility of the library for combinatorial use cases.
- Assign configurations and individual virtual machines within configurations to specific resource pools on which they should be deployed on.
- Connected configurations to multiple physical and virtual networks, each with their own subnet and VLAN characteristics, and create virtual machine configurations with multiple vNICs to attach to those networks.
- 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
- Identify configurations in the library that server as “gold master” images. Gold master configurations are more prominently displayed and can be sorted separately from other library configurations
- Maximize library entries per storage server due to efficient storage compression algorithms. Support for both linked and full clones allows users to choose the appropriate cloning technology for special use cases such as I/O sensitive workloads.
- Control settings for public and private library entries
- Set up public-private scoping and list filtering of library
Enterprise Scalability
- Create distinct groups of users with either dedicated or shared resources and virtual machine configurations
- Use Active Directory or OpenLDAP for user authentication and map users and groups to organizations
- Define visibility and access rights to shared virtual machine configurations and templates across users and across organizations at a more granular level
- Define which notifications and alerts are sent to users and organizations
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
- Optimize how VM files are distributed across multiple datastores to free up or load balance disk space consumption
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
- Take full advantage of resource pools created in VMware VirtualCenter as well as HA, DRS and VMotion
- Easily import virtual machines from the Virtual Center inventory
- Auto-installation of the Lab Manager agent through Virtual Center eliminates manual preparation tasks of ESX hosts
- 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
Product Integrations
- Packaged integrations available for HP® Quality Center, Borland® Silk™ Central Test Manager, etc.
- SOAP API available for building custom integrations
Get VMware Lab Manager Now
Evaluate VMware Lab Manager today. To get more information or purchase VMware Lab Manager, contact VMware directly at 1-877-4VMWARE (outside of North America dial 1-650-427-5000) or send a message to sales.
