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VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide
Lab Manager Components
"Lab Manager servers" collectively refers to the Lab Manager Server system, Managed
Server systems, and storage servers. Figure 1‐1 illustrates the components of Lab
Manager.
Figure 1-1. Lab Manager Components
Lab Manager
client user
Lab Manager
client user
Lab Manager
client user
Lab Manager Server – A server that provides Web and SOAP interfaces for the Lab
Manager system. The Lab Manager Server system manages and deploys configurations
against a pool of Managed Server systems.
Lab Manager Managed Server – A server running VMware ESX Server and Managed
Server software. The Lab Manager Server system uses the Managed Server system to
deploy configurations and their virtual machines. You can have multiple Managed
Server systems.
Lab Manager storage server – Storage for virtual machines (for example, an ESX Server
SAN or NFS server) and storage for media (CD and floppy images). You can have
multiple storage servers.
Every Lab Manager installation provides default media storage on the Lab Manager
Server system.
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administrator
Lab Manager Server
default media
storage
network
Lab Manager
Managed Server
Lab Manager
Managed Server
Lab Manager
Managed Server
virtual machine
storage
(SAN)
media and
virtual machine
storage
(NFS)
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