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Lab Manager User's Guide
Redeploy All Virtual Machines on a Different Host
When you redeploy, you are undeploying the virtual machines from the current host and redeploying them to
other available hosts. Before you can redeploy its virtual machines, you need to disable a host.
The organization from which the redeployment is initiated must have access to another host that is CPU
compatible with the current host and has the capacity to deploy the virtual machines.
To redeploy all virtual machines on a host
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In the left pane, click Resources.
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In the Hosts tab, move the pointer over the host name and select Disable.
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Click OK.
4
Move the pointer over the host name and select Redeploy All VMs.
In the Global organization, Lab Manager undeploys all the virtual machines deployed on the host.
For the other organizations, only virtual machines deployed by users in the selected organization are
undeployed.
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Click OK.
Lab Manager redeploys the virtual machines.
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When you select Redeploy all VMs, the virtual machines are suspended, but their state is saved.
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Repair a Host
If the agent cannot be contacted, if the service VM is powered off, or if a host cannot be enabled or disabled for
Host Spanning, you can repair the host.
To repair the host
1
In the left pane, click Resources.
2
In the Hosts tab, move the pointer over the host name and select Repair.
Lab Manager completes the repair and enables Host Spanning. See "Host Spanning" on page 59 for
information.
Managing Datastores
Lab Manager supports VMFS and NFS datastores, which it accesses through vCenter. You can add datastores
by attaching them to ESX/ESXi hosts in vCenter. VMware recommends shared storage (NFS, iSCSI, or Fiber
Channel). If you store virtual machine files on local (not shared) storage, you can only deploy the virtual
machines on the local ESX/ESXi host.
Datastores can also be enabled as media stores. See "Managing Media Stores" on page 100.
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There is a limit of eight managed servers (hosts) per LUN. If you exceed this limit, an error message
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appears. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003319 for more information.
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