Using Lab Manager With Virtualcenter Management Server - VMware VLM3-ENG-CP - Lab Manager - PC User Manual

VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide
Self‐help – Allows engineers to individually create, set up, and tear down
configurations without relying on IT.
Outsourcing and distributed development – Allows geographically dispersed
teams to work on the same machines and configurations over the Internet.
Review these specific features:
Templates – Create new, fully configured virtual machines in seconds.
Configurations – Run, manage, and monitor multiple configurations
simultaneously.
Configuration library – Store configurations to persistent storage for team use.
State capture – Capture the live state of all the machines in a configuration. You
can capture and share bugs in their running state.
Network fencing – Run copies of configurations with identical network profiles
simultaneously using this network isolation technology.
Resource management – Manage a pool of computing and storage resources.
Delta tree management – Save virtual machine file changes to efficient and
high‐performance storage.
Application integration – Integrate test applications with the Lab Manager Web
service SOAP API.
Monitoring – View and control server farm utilization in real time.
Browser access – Remotely access Lab Manager from any location.
Automation – Automate test matrices end‐to‐end.
Using Lab Manager with VirtualCenter Management
Server
You can use VMware VirtualCenter Management Server (VirtualCenter Server) to
monitor ESX Server systems managed by Lab Manager. However, all VirtualCenter
Server actions that register or unregister Lab Manager virtual machines (including
those triggered by VMware HA and VMware VMotion™) can cause errors in Lab
Manager.
VMware recommends managing ESX Server systems with Lab Manager or
VirtualCenter Server, but not both. Avoid installing Lab Manager on the same system
as VirtualCenter Server to avoid performance complications. For more information on
VirtualCenter Server, see the VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation.
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