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VMware vCenter Lab Manager™

Simplify Management of the Internal Cloud for Dev/Test

Provide on-demand access and automated management of the internal cloud for dev/test with VMware vCenter Lab Manager. Application owners, development, QA, and training teams can deploy, capture and share multi-tier application environments in seconds while IT remains in administrative control. Lab Manager saves time, simplifies administration of fast changing environments and enables project teams to get to market faster

Experience the Benefits of the Internal Cloud for Dev/Test

VMware vCenter Lab Manager is the ideal solution for IT organizations who want to provide self-service provisioning and management capabilities to internal teams. Policy-based access control reduces administrative burden for IT, lowers infrastructure management costs and empowers project teams to deliver applications more quickly and with greater agility.

Deliver Higher Service Levels and Lower Infrastructure Costs

Lab Manager offers unique capabilities to simplify management of the internal cloud for dev/test:

• Self Service Portal - Provides on-demand access to a library of virtual machine configurations for end users while eliminating time-consuming provisioning tasks for IT by 95%.
• Automated Resource Management - Allows dynamic allocation of resources in a multi-team environment, enforces quotas and access rights, and reclaims unused infrastructure services.
• Enterprise Scalability – Provides long-term return on investment with a scalable architecture for worldwide deployment, best in class performance and seamless integrations with in-house and 3rd party solutions.

Accelerate Application Development and Testing

Give every engineer the equivalent of their own personal datacenter. In seconds, Lab Manager deploys, captures and shares any system configuration, enabling teams to rapidly prototype new applications, test software releases on a broader range of system configurations and capture, reproduce and resolve defects more easily. The Lab Manager API, as well as integrations with leading test and build management tools, provides additional automation benefits to allow for continuous testing and integration of software applications. This capability shortens delivery schedules and increases software quality.

Automate Release Management

Eliminate the risk of failed production system updates. Application owners can create faithful replicas of production systems for patch testing and seamlessly transition updated system configurations across testing, staging and production environments connected to different networks, server and storage systems. Lab Manager allows release teams to update production systems more quickly, shorten maintenance windows and avoid downtime.

Streamline Workflows, Improve Team Collaboration and Get to Market Faster

Lab Manager is ideally suited to support a broad range of use cases including:

• Support and Helpdesk Operations – Troubleshoot customer problems more quickly and improve mean team to resolution.
• Training and Education – Rapidly provision lab environments for hands-on training classes
• Product Demos – Demonstrate complex application environments in a reliable and repeatable manner
• Software Evaluations – Improve lead conversion rates with online evaluation portals powered by Lab Manager

Key Features

VMware vCenter Lab Manager is the most trusted, proven and widely deployed lab management software in the world. Now in its 4th generation, Lab Manager leads the industry with best-in-class performance and scalability, seamless integration with vSphere and vCenter Server, more efficient use of storage resources and more automated management capabilities that simplify IT administration while delivering higher service levels for end users.

• Self-Service Portal [View More]
  Self-Service Portal Provide on-demand access to shared infrastructure for non-IT users to create, deploy and reconfigure multi-tier system configurations in seconds without IT involvement. Self-service management reduces administrative burden and infrastructure management costs for IT and empowers the business to execute company strategy, get to market faster and grow top-line revenue.
  

  • Rapid Provisioning: Create, deploy and capture any conceivable system configurations in seconds.
  • Configuration Management: Clone, transfer and share environments easily, take system snapshots, or restore a previous state.
  • Web-based: Users control and interact with virtual machines via web browser from anywhere on the corporate network.
  • Easy to use: Designed for non-IT users to get up and running instantly.
• Image Library [View More]
  Image Library Provides a central repository of virtual machine images for Lab Manager users. System configurations can be captured in state for quick deployment, archival and sharing with other users. The image library stores system configurations in a highly compact format, reducing storage footprints and containing storage growth.
  

  • Linked Clones greatly reduce storage footprints by de-duplicating data in similar system images
  • Storage Leases eliminate resource sprawl by reclaiming space from expired images
  • Gold Master Configurations allow users to easily identify released images and other reference configurations
  • Auto Archive capability simplifies export of system configurations to external datastores.
  • Media Store provides a central repository of common installation files and OS images.
• Organizations [View More]
  Organizations Simplifies delivery and administration of internal cloud infrastructure, and enable end users to "consume" internal resources in a controlled and predictable manner. IT can dynamically allocate resources to multiple teams, projects and sites, enforce policy-based access control, and reclaims unused resources.
  

  • Workspaces provide a single pane of glass for Lab Manager users to access, create and control system configurations available to them.
  • Resource containers map dedicated or shared server, datastore and network environments to groups of users, and can be allocated dynamically or with fixed size.
  • Roles & Rights provide granular access control to over 50 Lab Manager commands and properties.
  • Quotas & Deployment Leases allow administrators to set policies for the number and length of concurrent VM deployments for users and groups.
  • "Live Link" enables sharing of complete application environments as a single URL embedded in an email or bug tracking system.
  • Network Fencing allows virtual machine configuration clones to be deployed simultaneously, preserving the original system settings without causing network conflict.
  • Host Spanning allows network fenced configurations to be deployed across multiple physical hosts if the VM configuration is too large to fit on a single machine (requires vSphere Enterprise Plus)
• Enterprise Scalability [View More]
  Enterprise Scalability Lab Manager 4 is architected to fit into nearly every environment and scale with the needs of the organization from local to global deployments supporting thousands of users and virtual machines. Moreover, Lab Manager provides industry leading performance and seamless vSphere platform integration to take advantage of the full benefits of the VMware Cloud OS. Flexible APIs and 3rd party integrations provide even higher levels of automation of repetitive, manual tasks.
  

  • Performance optimized so virtual machine configurations can be created in seconds.
  • Scalable architecture supports thousands of users simultaneously
  • Seamless vSphere and vCenter Server integration lets you take full advantage of the VMware platform benefits
  • LDAP support allows IT administrators to integrate Lab Manager with Active Directory and other user authentication systems
  • Audit trail and change logs keep track of all user activities in the system
  • 3rd Party Integrations available for HP Quality Center, Borland SilkCentral, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
  • SOAP API available for building custom scripts and integrations.