About Configurations; Accessing Configurations - VMware VLM3-ENG-CP - Lab Manager - PC User Manual

VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide

About Configurations

Templates must be published before you can create configurations. For information on
building and using machine templates, see Chapter 4, "Working with Machine
Templates," on page 45.
Lab Manager provides the Workspace page to work with configurations and the
configuration library to store and check out configurations.

Accessing Configurations

You can access configurations in the Workspace and in the configuration library.
To access the Workspace page
Click Workspace in the left pane.
The Workspace page includes these elements:
Consoles – Provides access to the virtual machine consoles of the configuration
through the thumbnail icons.
Configuration Name – Provides a mouseover menu to perform various operations
on the configuration.
Status – Indicates whether the configuration is deployed or in the midst of an
operation.
Owner – Shows the owner of the configuration.
Date Deployed – Shows the date and time of the last deploy operation.
Fenced – Indicates whether the configuration is running in fenced mode.
# Machines – Shows the number of virtual machines in the configuration.
Sharing – Shows configurations available for others to use beside the owner.
Filter – View a subset of the configurations. In the field to the left of the Filter
button, enter text that appears in the attributes of the configuration you want to
view.
Using the mouseover menu to the left of the field, you can filter across all columns
on the page or within a specific column.
The filter text search does not recognize wildcards. If you enter a traditional
wildcard, such as an asterisk (*), this function performs a literal search for an
asterisk symbol.
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