cloudshare teamlabs walkthrough
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CloudShare TeamLabs Trial
Walkthrough
Thank you for taking the time to try out CloudShare TeamLabs. This short presentation will walk you through the six basic steps you should complete during your TeamLabs Trial. If you have any questions or want a live demonstration of TeamLabs contact [email protected].
These are your running environments
These are the projectsyou belong to
This is the activity of your team
This is your home screen - the control panel for all environments and projects
This is a graph of your team’s usage
Step 1: Create an Environment• Go to the Environments Menu and Select “Create”
Environments are a collection of resources in the cloud. Each environment is walled off from all others. An environment contains machines, networking, software, configurations, current network and memory state.
Create an Environment• Select the virtual machines you want to add to the environment
• Once you have added all the machines you want from the catalog Click “Save and Run”
You can add one or more machines. All machines added will be automatically networked together.
The environment will be automatically provisioned for you.
Step 2: Access the VMs• Once the environment is provisioned you can access the machine in the
browser window, or via RDP
Now Click the “Take Snapshot” button to snapshot your environment.
Step 3: Snapshot• Give your snapshot a name
and description
• Click the “Take Snapshot” button
Snapshots can be published to all users as a blueprint, or as a versions of existing blueprints.
Once the snapshot is completed it will be available in the catalog of blueprints.
Step 4: Create a Policy• Now create a policy used to run
environments for a specified period of time
• Go to the “Management” Menu
• Select “Policies”
Create a Policy• Click the “Create Environment Policy” button
Create a Policy• Give the policy a name
• …a runtime lease (how long the environment will run)
• …a storage lease (how long before the environment deletes)
• …a directive for handling inactivity (what to do when users are not accessing the environment)
Policies allow you to reclaim resources for unused environments. This means at one moment you can run very large environments, and at other times many small ones.
Step 5: Add Users• Go to the “Management” menu
• Select “Users”
• Select “Project Members”
Now add users to run the environment you created with the policy you created. A user is someone that will create environments for their development and testing.
Add Users• Enter the user’s email address
• …the first name
• …the last name
• Select which project(s) the user belongs too
• Set the user to be a project manager, team manager, or or team member
• Click “Send Confirmation Request”
Choose the user configuration that best suites your team size and organization’s governance.
Project managers can see all environments in all projects, create users, and blueprints. Team managers can see all environments, and create blueprints, in the project(s) they belong to. Team members can only run blueprints in the environment they belong to.
The new user will get an email to setup a username and password
Step 6: Run EnvironmentsOnce the user logs in, they will
• Go to the “Environment” menu
• And Select “Run”
Run EnvironmentsUsers then:
• Select the project that contains the blueprint they want
• Select the blueprint from the list
• Select the version of that blueprint, if there is more than one
• Select the policy determining how long it will run
• Give it a name
When they run the environment they will have their own exact copy of the environment where it was left during the latest snapshot. This includes network and memory state. Because environments can be versioned you can have any number of configurations for a single environment type.
Now you know the basics of using TeamLabs.Look around, and learn how to:
• Manage users and projects
• Upload VMs
• Copy VMs
• Edit Environment Hardware
• Version Blueprints
• Run Usage Reports
• Install Visual Studio and TFS Plugins
• Add more automation with the REST API
We hope you enjoy your TeamLabs trial. If you ever get stuck, contact [email protected]