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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
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Contents
ManagingHosts 165
ViewingHosts 165
PreparingandUnpreparingHosts 167
EnablingandDisablingHosts 168
ModifyingHostProperties 168
ViewingDeployedVirtualMachinesonaHost 169
UndeployingAllVirtualMachinesonaHost 171
ManagingDatastores 172
ViewingDatastores 172
RemovingDatastores 173
EnablingandDisablingDatastores 174
ModifyingDatastoreProperties 175
ViewingVirtualMachineDatastoreUsage 175
ViewingVirtualMachineDatastoreDirectories 177
DeletingExpiredVirtualMachines 179
Renewingthe
StorageLeaseforanExpiredVirtualMachine 179
DeletingRevertPoints 180
ConsolidatingaVirtualMachineBasedonDatastoreUsage 180
DeletingaVirtualMachineorConfigurationBasedonDatastore
Usage 181
ManagingMediaStores 181
ViewingMediaStores 181
AddingMediaStores 182
SynchronizingMediaStores 183
EnablingandDisablingMediaStores 183
ChangingtheNameofaMediaStore 184
ManagingPhysicalNetworks 184
Viewing
PhysicalNetworks 184
AddingaPhysicalNetwork 185
ViewingIPPoolUsageforaPhysicalNetwork 186
AddingIPAddressestotheIPPoolofaPhysicalNetwork 187
RemovingIPAddressesfromtheIPPoolofaPhysicalNetwork 188
ModifyingPhysicalNetworkProperties 188
DeletingaPhysicalNetwork 188
ConfiguringLabManagerSettings 189
ConfiguringGeneralSettings 189
LabManagerPreferences 189
EmailPreferences 191
SystemAlerts 192