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Virtual Lifecycle Automation Solutions

Gathering machines, installing operating systems, installing and configuring applications, establishing inter-machine connections used to be a painstaking, multi-hour exercise. VMware Lab Manager reduces this process to a simple self-service provisioning task, accomplished with a single click of the mouse that literally takes only seconds. Although software developers and QA engineers can now fulfill their own provisioning needs, IT still remains in control of user management, storage quotas and server deployment policies - achieving the best of both worlds.

Benefits

VMware Lab Manager is powerful virtual lab automation infrastructure for software developers and QA engineers and the IT groups that support them – enabling development teams to simultaneously accelerate delivery and improve software quality. Its capabilities provide numerous quantifiable benefits to organizations:

Reduce equipment-related capital and operating expenditures
Accelerate integration and system testing
Shave weeks or months off every software project
Slash time and energy wasted finding and hoarding servers, storage and networking equipment
Increase the number of certified configurations a new system supports
Enable real-world unit and functional testing
Find and fix more bugs earlier in the development cycle
Reproduce bugs reliably and reduce time spent in the debug phase
Reduce the number of latent software defects that slip into production
Eliminate upgrade breakage
Deliver better product support
Rapidly troubleshoot customer production problems
Improve communication and productivity across distributed development environments
Reduce development and test equipment costs
Slash software development and test cycle times
Dramatically increase the quality of delivered software systems
Improve communication and collaboration among teams

Summary

Building on VMware Infrastructure, VMware Lab Manager enables software developers and QA engineers to suspend, then capture to a shared storage library, a complete state of “configurations” – or collections of running, interdependent computer systems that span multiple machines. Over time, organizations can build up a library of configurations, including test scenarios, production environments and customer system configurations. When a configuration in the library is needed later for development or test purposes, for example to test a new software build in the context of a customer production environment, VMware Lab Manager can instantly deploy the entire configuration to the best available resources in a pool of managed servers – exactly as it was captured, running and ready for use.

Further, the network fencing technology of VMware Lab Manager lets multiple users deploy copies of the same library configuration simultaneously, without having to change machine characteristics such as IP addresses, MAC addresses, or security IDs – and yet still have full network access.

Take a minute to download the whitepaper below or give us a call today to learn how you can take control of your processes and infrastructure.

“VMware Lab Manager enables our software developers and QA
engineers to easily capture complex system test environments
and instantly share them across the organization. This process
has allowed us to scale our business and accelerate our time to
market.”
Omar Ansari
Sr. Manager, Engineering Infrastructure
Juniper Networks

Download VMWare Lab Manager Datasheet