Eric SarakaitisSenior Systems EngineerOCLC

VMware Lab managerOCLC Dublin

July 19, 2010

Agenda

What is Lab Manager?How does Lab Manager work?How do I use Lab Manager?

How does Lab Manager help you?Dimema use case

Lab Manager demonstration

What Is Lab Manager?

How Does Lab Manager Work

Lab Manager ServerEnd User

Available ResourcesResources Deployed

What is an organization?

An organization is a group of users and the resources they are allocated access to

Specific Virtual Machine Templates

Specific VLAN Access Specific Media Access

Organization XYZ

What makes Lab Manager tick?

Lab Manager utilizes Linked Clone technology (borrowed from view) to speed up deployments while utilizing the smallest amount of resources.

Original Template

Linked Clones of template

How do I use Lab Manager?

vCenter Application Linked Clone of vCenter Application

Lab Manager Library

Team sharing

Ease of deployment

How does Lab Manager help you?

• Time savings

• Guarantee consistency

• Cost savings on lab hardware/facilities

• Sandbox for software development and testing

• Rapidly provisioned area for support, training, and demos

• Isolated security zone

Dimema Use Case

Guest Operating Systems

Application Release

With Lab Manager

Guest Operating Systems

Application Release

Before Lab Manager

•Automated deployment

•Refresh time measured in minutes

•Deployments based on identical templates

•Archiving ability for future testing

•Manual deployment/configuration of thick virtual machines

•Refresh time measured in days

•No guarantee of like systems

Lab Manager Demonstration

Lessons?

• Find a permanent home for Lab Manager the first time

• If you can, force users to build their own templates

• Sell it to your security team first, easy as pie from there

• Use Digi usb-over-TCP/IP devices for USB device scenarios

• Linked clone tree depth limit of 30, no width limit

Questions?

Lab Manager Demonstration

Demo