Lab Manager Benefits And Features - VMware VLM3-ENG-CP - Lab Manager - PC User Manual

Lab Manager client user – Clients who can use the Lab Manager Web console and the
Lab Manager SOAP API. You can access the Lab Manager Web console with Internet
Explorer or Firefox.
Lab Manager Web console – The browser‐based console that enables
management for all testing activities, regardless of physical location. You can
access this component using standard HTTP protocols.
Use the Lab Manager Web console to organize groups of virtual machines into
configurations based on machine templates, to store configurations and their
state in libraries, and to quickly copy and use multiple copies of library
configurations simultaneously without requiring knowledge of the
networking environment. Copies of library configurations are available
within seconds.
When you check out a library configuration, the configuration retains the
network profile (IP address, name, MAC address, security identifiers, and
more), which preserves the running software and data on the machine. Virtual
machines created from templates are given new network profiles as they join
a configuration. This profile changes through the Lab Manager Tools (LM
Tools) utility installed on the template operating system.
Lab Manager SOAP API – A SOAP API Web service that enables you to
access Lab Manager programmatically. This allows easy integration with
build management systems and with automated testing tools from Mercury,
IBM, Segue, and other companies.

Lab Manager Benefits and Features

Lab Manager enables users to lower development, test, and integration costs, as well as
tap into a shared pool of server and networking resources, eliminate manual setup, and
decrease software development times.
Review these specific benefits:
Productivity – Saves time when provisioning machines.
Process improvement – Assists with communication between testing and
development teams.
Server consolidation – Includes pool and share servers, storage, and other testing
and development resources.
Computer access – Provides access to more computers than available physical
machines.
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