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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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ManagingVirtualMachineTemplates 91
UnpublishingVirtualMachineTemplates 91
ExportingVirtualMachineTemplatestoanSMBShare 91
ConsolidatingVirtualMachineTemplates 92
DiscardingStateforVirtualMachineTemplates 93
ModifyingVirtualMachineTemplateProperties 93
ModifyingVirtualMachineTemplateHardDisks 96
AddingaVirtualMachineTemplateHardDisk 96
AddingSCSIVirtualHardDisks 96
EditingaVirtualMachineTemplateHard
Disk 97
DeletingaVirtualMachineTemplateHardDisk 97
ModifyingVirtualMachineTemplateNetworkInterfaces 97
AddingaNetworkInterface 97
EditingNetworkInterfaceSettings 99
DeletingaNetworkInterface 100
ResettingaNetworkInterfaceMACAddress 100
ChangingOwnershipofVirtualMachineTemplates 100
DeletingVirtualMachineTemplates 101
6 WorkingwithConfigurations 103
AccessingConfigurations 104
AccessingtheWorkspacePage 104
AccessingtheLibraryPage 105
CreatingConfigurations 106
ImportingConfigurationsfromanSMBShare 109
CloningConfigurations 110
CloningWorkspaceConfigurations 110
CloningLibraryConfigurations 111
ViewingConfigurationVirtualMachinesandNetworks 112
ViewingConfigurationVirtualMachines 112
ViewingConfigurationNetworks 114
ViewingConfigurationDiagrams 115
ChangingtheVirtualMachinesinaConfiguration 115
AddingaVirtualMachinetoaConfiguration 115
Removinga
VirtualMachinefromaConfiguration 116
MovingVirtualMachinestoAnotherConfiguration 117
ChangingtheNetworksinaConfiguration 118
AddingaNetworktoaConfiguration 118
RemovingaNetworkfromaConfiguration 118
ForciblyRemovingaNetworkfromaConfiguration 119