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VMware Lab Manager 2.5

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This is a good product for all organizations that are into software testing

and development. The VMware Lab Manager allows you to create test environments

on the fly. For instance, if something goes wrong during a test, i.e. the

application crashes, or the OS develops a problem, then the entire setup has to

be re-erected from scratch. The administrator has to reinstall everything and

reconfigure the machine again for tests. This is a very time consuming task,

which wastes a lot of productivity. The VMware Lab Manager 2.5 is an advanced

virtual lab automation system, which speeds up the deployment process of virtual

test machines. It works in parallel with VMware ESX 3.0 Server, where all

virtual machines are hosted and provides an environment to deploy virtual

machines and multiple test setups on shared or private basis. You don't require

any additional hardware except the server hardware, where you host the virtual

test machines.

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The software is easy to use. With it an administrator just needs to create

templates of virtual machines before-hand and deploy them as and when required .

Whenever a test setup has to be created with multiple OSes, you just have to

create a workspace for the concerned development team and further associate the

virtual machine's template to the workspace. Then you can provide access of this

virtual lab to the test team via Remote Desktop protocol (in case of Windows)

and shell access (in case of Unix or Linux ). Features of this manager include

provisioning, cloning, rapid deployment of virtual machines, support for Fiber

channel SANs, iSCSI and NFS storage, and expanded OS support. With it we could

use 64 bit and virtual SMP guest OSs for deploying and managing virtual

machines. Moreover, we could capture a machine's configuration in an error

state, so that the test team can troubleshoot and determine the cause of error.

One can even provide remote access of his virtual test lab setup to his

outsourced partners.

Deployment of a created OS template took less than a minute. We created a

Windows 2003 Server and Cent OS template, and deployment of both took 57 and 35

secs respectively. This would have consumed several hours if we had to do it on

a real machine.

Price:

Rs 41,190 (3 yrs warranty)



Key Specs: Full duplex, VLAN
support, QoS, Layer 3 routing, port mirroring, browser-based

management



Contact: Dax Networks, Chennai.


Tel: 24323558,
E-mail:help@daxnetworks.com





SMS Buy 130593 to 6677


Bottom Line: A good buy for software development firms, where stress testing

of their applications is a must.

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