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Table Of Contents

VMware Lab Manager Installation Guide

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Adding NFS Virtual Machine Storage

IfyouconfiguredNFSstorageforvirtualmachines,addthisstoragetothe

Lab ManagerWebconsole.

To add an NFS virtual machine server

1Intheleftpane,clickStorage.

2IntheVirtualMachinestab,clicktheAddNFSStoragebutton.

aEnteranameforthenewserver.

Thenamecanonlycontainalphanumericcharacters(a–z,A–Z,0–9),hyphens,

underscores,

orperiods.Themaximumlengthis128characters.

b (Optional)Ifyoudonotwantthestorageserverimmediatelyavailableforuse,

deselecttheEnabledcheckbox.

cEnteravalueforDiskSpaceThresholdYellow.

Whenavailablediskspacefallsbelowthislevel,Lab Managersendsanemail

warningmessagetotherecipients

specifiedinLab Manager’sEmailAlert

settings.

dEnteravalueforDiskSpaceThresholdRed.

Whenavailablediskspacefallsbelowthislevel,Lab Managersendsanemail

alert(moreseverethantheDiskSpaceThresholdYellowmessage)tothe

recipientsspecifiedinLab Manager’sEmailAlertsettings.

eSpecifytheNFSexportpathandclick

OK.

Adding and Synchronizing NFS Media Storage

IfyouaddedNFSmediastorageasdescribedin“ConfiguringNFSServers”onpage 39,

addthemediaservertotheLab ManagerWebconsoleandsynchronizeitwiththe

Lab ManagerServersystem.

ToensureLab M anagerrecognizesandsyncsupwiththecontentsoftheNFSmedia

server.Reviewtheserequirementsforthe

CD,DVD,andfloppyfiles:

 CDandDVDfilesmustendwith.iso.

 Floppyfilesmustendwith.img,.vfd,and.flp.