VMware vCenter Lab Manager

"SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT OF TRANSIENT AND CLONED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS"


Provide automated management of highly transient and highly cloned virtual environments 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. VMware vCenter Lab Manager saves time, simplifies administration of fast changing environments, and enables pre-production or demo project teams to get to market faster.

Automate Administration of Transient and Cloned Virtual Environments

VMware vCenter Lab Manager is the ideal solution for IT organizations that want to provide automated provisioning and management to internal teams. Policy-based access control reduces administrative burden for IT, lowers infrastructure management costs, and enables project teams to deliver applications more quickly and with higher utilization of resources.

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.

Control Environments and Consolidate Storage Needs

Eliminate the risk of failed virtual machine updates. Application owners can create faithful replicas of virtual machines for patch testing and seamlessly transition updated configurations across environments connected to different networks, server and storage systems. Linked clones reduce storage footprints by de-duplicating data in similar system images. VMware vCenter Lab Manager allows teams to update systems more quickly, shorten maintenance windows and avoid downtime.

Quickly and Efficiently Deploy High Turnover Virtual Machines

Provision virtual machines with short lifespans without the need for manual intervention and large storage requirements. VMware vCenter 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 time to resolution.
• Training and Education - rapidly provision replicated 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