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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager
- Using the Lab Manager Web Console
- Working with Network Templates
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Viewing the Virtual Machines in a Configuration
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Undeploying Virtual Machines
- Discarding State for Virtual Machines
- Consolidating Virtual Machines
- Modifying Virtual Machine Properties
- Viewing a Virtual Machine Console
- Working in a Virtual Machine Console
- Setting Up a Remote Desktop Connection
- Powering On or Powering Off a Virtual Machine
- Resetting a Virtual Machine
- Shutting Down a Virtual Machine
- Suspending and Resuming a Virtual Machine
- Installing VMware Tools
- Taking A Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Reverting to a Virtual Machine Snapshot
- Deleting a Virtual Machine Snapshot
- Inserting and Swapping CDs
- Ejecting CDs
- Inserting and Swapping Floppy Disks
- Ejecting Floppy Disks
- Working with BEA LiquidVMs
- Working with Virtual Machine Templates
- Accessing the VM Templates Page
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates
- Importing Virtual Machine Templates
- Saving Virtual Machines as Virtual Machine Templates
- Cloning Virtual Machine Templates
- Deploying Virtual Machine Templates
- Installing a Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools
- Customizing the Guest Operating System
- Prerequisites for Guest Customization
- Building a Microsoft Sysprep Package
- Choosing the Guest Customization SID Generation Tool
- Disabling Guest Customization
- Guest Customization for Windows NT and Solaris Virtual Machine Templates
- Customizing Guest Customization
- Importing Virtual Machine Templates from Lab Manager 2.x with VMware Tools and LM Tools
- Undeploying Virtual Machine Templates
- Sharing Virtual Machine Templates
- Publishing Virtual Machine Templates
- Managing Virtual Machine Templates
- Unpublishing Virtual Machine Templates
- Exporting Virtual Machine Templates to an SMB Share
- Consolidating Virtual Machine Templates
- Discarding State for Virtual Machine Templates
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Properties
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Hard Disks
- Modifying Virtual Machine Template Network Interfaces
- Changing Ownership of Virtual Machine Templates
- Deleting Virtual Machine Templates
- Working with Configurations
- Accessing Configurations
- Creating Configurations
- Importing Configurations from an SMB Share
- Cloning Configurations
- Viewing Configuration Virtual Machines and Networks
- Changing the Virtual Machines in a Configuration
- Changing the Networks in a Configuration
- Deploying Configurations
- Working with Configuration Snapshots
- Saving Configurations to the Library
- Sharing Configurations
- Managing Configurations
- Working with Media
- Administering and Monitoring Lab Manager
- Monitoring Lab Manager
- Managing Users, Groups, and Roles
- Managing Organizations
- Managing Resources
- Managing Resource Pools
- Managing Hosts
- Managing Datastores
- Viewing Datastores
- Removing Datastores
- Enabling and Disabling Datastores
- Modifying Datastore Properties
- Viewing Virtual Machine Datastore Usage
- Viewing Virtual Machine Datastore Directories
- Deleting Expired Virtual Machines
- Renewing the Storage Lease for an Expired Virtual Machine
- Deleting Revert Points
- Consolidating a Virtual Machine Based on Datastore Usage
- Deleting a Virtual Machine or Configuration Based on Datastore Usage
- Managing Media Stores
- Managing Physical Networks
- Configuring Lab Manager Settings
- Managing VirtualCenter and Datacenters
- Performing “Force” Operations
- Roles and Rights
- Datastore Rights
- General Rights
- Group Rights
- High I/O Rights
- Host Rights
- Library Configuration Rights
- Machine Rights
- Media Rights
- Media Store Rights
- Navigation Bar Rights
- Network Template Rights
- Organization Rights
- Physical Network Rights
- Resource Pool Rights
- Role Rights
- Sharing Rights
- User Rights
- Virtual Machine Template Rights
- Workspace Configuration Rights
- Client and Browser Support
- Guest Operating System Support
- Network Fencing
- Extending Guest Customization
- Glossary
- Index
Lab Manager User’s Guide
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virtual hard disks
adding 48, 96
adding SCSI disks 48, 96
editing 48, 97
Virtual Machine Datastore Usage
page 175
virtual machine template consoles 53
virtual machine templates
accessing 62
accessing virtual machine
consoles 53
adding virtual hard disks 48, 96
changing owner 100
cloning 70
consolidating 92
creating 64
creating by importing virtual
machines 66
creating from active virtual
machines 69
defining 61
deleting 101
deleting after ESX host failure 204
deleting with force 204
deploying 71
discarding state 93
editing properties 93
exporting 91
importing 66
installing guest operating
systems 73
installing VMware Tools 74
leases 89, 96
properties 93
publishing 89
sharing 88
undeploying 87
undeploying with force 203
unpublishing 91
virtual machine templates, sample in Lab
Manager 62
virtual machines
accessing 40
accessing the console 53
accessing the console for the first
time 53
adding to configurations 115, 117
adding virtual hard disks 48, 96
changing MAC addresses 51, 100
consolidating 44, 180
creating virtual machine templates
from 69
defining 39
deleting 116, 181
deploying 41
deploying on clusters with VMware
HA 43
discarding state 44
editing properties 45
ejecting CD images 59
ejecting floppy files 59
inserting CD images 58
inserting floppy files 59
installing ActiveX 53
installing VMware Remote MKS
Plugin 53
installing VMware Tools 57
leases 47, 122, 198
moving from one datastore to
another 181
performing guest customization 57
powering off 55
powering on 55
properties 45