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"VMware Lab Manager Virtual Lab Automation System"
What is VMWare Lab Manager?
VMware Lab Manager, the industry’s premier virtual lab automation system, automates
the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-machine software configurations,
and makes them available on demand to development and test teams through a self-service
portal. These operations are performed against a shared VMware Infrastructure resource
pool, which remains under IT’s administrative control. With VMware Lab Manager,
development and test lab provisioning and troubleshooting tasks that formerly took
hours or days can now be accomplished in seconds. Key benefits include: lower development
and test lab capital and operating costs, faster software development, increased
software quality, and outsourcing flexibility and security.
Benefits of VMWare Lab Manager
- Reduce development and test equipment costs
- Slash software development and test cycle times
- Dramatically increase the quality of delivered software
systems
- Improve communication and collaboration among teams
How Does VMware Lab Manager Work?
Building on VMware Infrastructure, VMware Lab Manager enables software developers
and QA engineers to suspend, then capture to a shared storage library, a complete
state of "configurations" – or collections of running, interdependent
computer systems that span multiple machines. Over time, organizations can build
up a library of configurations, including test scenarios, production environments
and customer system configurations.
When a configuration in the library is needed later for development or test purposes,
for example to test a new software build in the context of a customer production
environment, VMware Lab Manager can instantly deploy the entire configuration to
the best available resources in a pool of managed servers – exactly as it was captured,
running and ready for use.
Further, the network fencing technology of VMware Lab Manager lets multiple users
deploy copies of the same library configuration simultaneously, without having to
change machine characteristics such as IP addresses, MAC addresses, or security
IDs – and yet still have full network access.
Gathering machines, installing operating systems, installing and configuring applications,
establishing inter-machine connections used to be a painstaking, multi-hour exercise.
VMware Lab Manager reduces this process to a simple self-service provisioning task,
accomplished with a single click of the mouse that literally takes only seconds.
Although software developers and QA engineers can now fulfill their own provisioning
needs, IT still remains in control of user management, storage quotas and server
deployment policies -- achieving the best of both worlds.
For more information regarding VMWare Lab Manager and or other products Capital
Network Solutions, Inc. supports you can contact us
via the web or call 800-781-2755.
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