VMware vCenter™ Lab Manager 4, part of the VMware vCenter family of management products, provides on-demand access and automated management of the internal cloud for dev/test. Application Owners, Development and Test, and Support and Training teams can provision application environments in seconds and manage a library of common system configurations through a selfservice portal under IT control. Lab Manager 4 enforces policy-based access control, optimizes utilization of shared infrastructure, and avoids resource conflict in a multi-user environment, eliminating repetitive provisioning and ad-hoc management tasks for IT. Designed for enterprise scalability, best-in-class performance, and seamless integration with VMware vSphere™, Lab Manager 4 enables higher service levels, faster time to market, and simplified IT administration.
The key features provided by VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4 are:
• A Rapid Provisioning Portal – Set up, capture, and re-configure multi-VM system configurations in seconds.
• A Virtual Machine Image Library – Provide an archive of commonly used system configurations while reducing storage footprints.
• Enterprise Scalability – Support multiple teams, projects, and sites with a single installation, dedicated or shared resource pools,
customizable user roles and access rights, and advanced networking options.
Lab Manager 4 tightly integrates with VMware vSphere™ 4, providing organizations with the capabilities needed to transform their datacenters into the internal cloud for Development and Test. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first cloud operating system – transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified environments to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. This paper provides a technical overview of new management capabilities built into the VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4 release, including VMware vSphere support, multiple organizations and workspaces, and host spanning private networks (a technology which enables cross-host fencing).
