VMware vCenter Lab Manager is the ideal solution for IT organizations who want to provide self-service provisioning and management capabilities to internal teams. Policy-based access control reduces administrative burden for IT, lowers infrastructure management costs and empowers project teams to deliver applications more quickly and with greater agility.
Features:
- Self Service Portal – Provides on-demand access to a library of virtual machine configurations for end users while eliminating time-consuming provisioning tasks for IT by 95%.
- Automated Resource Management – Allows dynamic allocation of resources in a multi-team environment, enforces quotas and access rights, and reclaims unused infrastructure services.
- Enterprise Scalability – Provides long-term return on investment with a scalable architecture for worldwide deployment, best in class performance and seamless integrations with in-house and 3rd party solutions.
- Rapid Provisioning: Create, deploy and capture any conceivable system configurations in seconds.
- Configuration Management: Clone, transfer and share environments easily, take system snapshots, or restore a previous state.
- Web-based: Users control and interact with virtual machines via web browser from anywhere on the corporate network.
- Easy to use: Designed for non-IT users to get up and running instantly.
- Linked Clones greatly reduce storage footprints by de-duplicating data in similar system images
- Storage Leases eliminate resource sprawl by reclaiming space from expired images
- Gold Master Configurations allow users to easily identify released images and other reference configurations
- Auto Archive capability simplifies export of system configurations to external datastores.
- Media Store provides a central repository of common installation files and OS images.