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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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ViewingIPPoolUsageforaVirtualNetwork 36
AddingIPAddressestotheIPPoolofaVirtualNetwork 37
RemovingIPAddressesfromtheIPPoolofaVirtualNetwork 37
4 WorkingwithVirtualMachines 39
ViewingtheVirtualMachinesinaConfiguration 40
DeployingVirtualMachines 41
DeployingVirtualMachinesonHighAvailabilityClusters 43
UndeployingVirtualMachines 43
DiscardingStateforVirtualMachines 44
ConsolidatingVirtualMachines 44
ModifyingVirtualMachineProperties 45
ModifyingVirtualMachineHardDisks 48
AddingaVirtualMachineHardDisk 48
EditingaVirtualMachineHardDisk 48
DeletingaVirtualMachineHardDisk 49
Modifying
VirtualMachineNetworkInterfaces 49
EditingNetworkInterfaceSettings 49
ResettingaNetworkInterfaceMACAddress 51
AddingaNetworkInterface 51
DeletingaNetworkInterface 52
ViewingaVirtualMachineConsole 53
InstallingtheActiveXControlorVMwareRemoteMKSPlug‐In 53
WorkinginaVirtualMachineConsole 54
SettingUpaRemoteDesktopConnection 55
PoweringOnorPoweringOffa
VirtualMachine 55
ResettingaVirtualMachine 56
ShuttingDownaVirtualMachine 56
SuspendingandResumingaVirtualMachine 56
InstallingVMwareTools 57
TakingASnapshotofaVirtualMachine 57
RevertingtoaVirtualMachineSnapshot 58
DeletingaVirtualMachineSnapshot 58
InsertingandSwappingCDs 58
EjectingCDs 59
InsertingandSwappingFloppyDisks 59
EjectingFloppyDisks 59
WorkingwithBEALiquidVMs 60