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Table Of Contents
- Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process
- Installation Requirements and Recommendations
- vSphere 4.0 Requirements and Recommendations
- Datastore Requirements and Recommendations
- Lab Manager Server Requirements and Recommendations
- Operating System and Framework
- CPU Speed
- Processor
- Hard Disk
- Memory
- Network
- CD or DVD Drive
- System Clock
- Lab Manager Server Recommendations
- Install IIS on the Lab Manager Server for Windows 2003
- Install IIS 7.0 on the Lab Manager Server for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Check the Version of an Existing .NET Framework Installation
- Install the .NET Framework on the Lab Manager Server
- Credential Requirements for Connecting to vCenter Server from Lab Manager
- Web Console Access Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Security Requirements and Recommendations
- Installing Lab Manager
- Upgrading to Lab Manager 4.0
- Supported Upgrades
- Upgrading from Lab Manager 3.x
- Upgrading from Stage Manager 1.x
- Upgrading ESX Server
- Index
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VMwarevCenterLab Managerisanapplicationthatprovidesarapidprovisioningportalandimagelibrary
managementsystemtoautomatethesetupandteardownofmultimachinesoftwareconfigurationsand
manageservicetransitionactivities.LabManagerleveragesVMwarevSphereandVMwarevCenterto
providevirtualinfrastructureresourcestomultipleteams,projects,andgeographies
fromacentrallocation.
UsingLab Manager,youcancreateasharedvirtualmachinelibrarythatstorescommonlyusedconfigurations
andprovideuserswithself‐serviceaccesstotheseconfigurationsforapplicationdevelopment,testing,
support,training,softwaredemonstrations,andmore.Lab Managersystemadministratorscontrolaccess
rights,storagequotas,anddeploymentpolicies.
See
theLab ManagerUser’sGuideforafulloverviewoftheproduct.
Thischapterincludesthesetopics:
“LabManagerComponents”onpage 7
“OverviewofLab ManagerInstallationProcess”onpage 8
Lab Manager Components
Lab ManagerrequiresVMwarevSphere.VMwareESX™andESXihostsprovidethememoryandCPU
resourcestorunLab Managervirtualmachines.Lab ManagermanagestheESX/ESXihoststhroughaVMware
vCenterServersystemandtheLab Manageragentinstalledonthosehosts.ESX/ESXihostscontinuetofunction
evenifthevCenterServersystembecomes
unreachable(forexample,thenetworkconnectionissevered).
vSpheredatastoresprovidesharedstorageforLab Managervirtualmachinesandmediafiles(forinstalling
guestoperatingsystemsandapplications).
UserscanaccesstheLab ManagerserverthroughWebandSOAPinterfaces:
UseMicrosoftInternetExplorerorMozillaFirefoxtoaccesstheLab ManagerWebconsoletointeractwith
theLab Managerserverusingtheuserinterface.
UsetheLab ManagerSOAPAPItoaccesstheLab M anagerserverprogrammatically.TheSOAPAPI
allowseasyintegrationwithbuildmanagementsystemsandautomatedtestingtools.Formore
information,seetheLab ManagerSOAPAPIGuide.
Introducing Lab Manager and the
Installation Process
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