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Table Of Contents
VMware® Lab Manager Installation Guide
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General Requirements
Reviewthisgeneralrequirementchecklisttomakesureyouhaveeverythingyouneed
fortheLabManagersystem:
OneormoreWindowsServer2003machineswiththespecificationsdetailedin
“SystemRequirements:LabManagerServerandManagedServeronpage 15
WindowsServer2003CD.
OneormoreVMwareESXServer3.0.1machineswiththespecificationsdetailedin
“SystemRequirements:LabManagerServerandManagedServeronpage 15.
LabManagerlicensekeytousetheLabManagerlicenseonasingleLabManager
Server.NetworkerrorscanoccurwhendifferentLabManagerServersattemptto
accessthesameManagedServer.
Lab Manager VMware-labmanager-agent-esx-2.4.0-<build number>.bin
toinstalltheLabManagerManagedServersoftware.
VMware-labmanager-server-2.4.0-<build number>.exetoinstalltheLab
ManagerServersoftware.
Networkingrequirements:
IPaddressinformationforvirtualmachines
AblockofunusedIPaddresses
Gateway
Subnetmask
DNSserver
(Optional)SecondaryDNSserver
Formoreinformation,see“NetworkRequirements”onpage 20.
GuestoperatingsystemISOfiles.Aguestoperatingsystemresidesonavirtual
machine.AnISOfileisanimageofaCDROM.
VMwareusestheterm“guestOS”todistinguishitfromtheoperatingsystemfor
thephysicalserver(“hostOS”)thatthevirtualmachinerunson.
Formoreinformation,
see“GuestOperatingSystemRequirements”onpage 17.
Guestoperatingsystemlicensekeys.