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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

• Optimizing the datacenter and enabling next‑generation computing services
• Leveraging industry‑standard x86‑architecture hardware
• Unifying management of diverse environments including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Novell operating system

What are the Benefits of VMware VirtualCenter?

• 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 VirtualCenter 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.

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