preparing for vmware lab manager end of life
DESCRIPTION
VMware will officially end support for its Lab Manager product this month. Due to its popularity, Lab Manager is still being used extensively by software development and testing teams. As a result, many of these teams are searching for a lab management solution that will provide them the same key features and benefits as Lab Manager. This webinar will review the essential aspects of leveraging virtualization for dev/test and will discuss how Skytap, a SaaS platform purpose-built for dev/test teams, can be used to support and enhance the same workflows supported by VMware Lab Manager.TRANSCRIPT
Preparing for VMware Lab Manager End of Life
Seth Payne, Sr. Technical Product Manager
May 28, 2014
Agenda
Review of what made Lab Manager a “killer app” for
dev/test teams
Lab Manager end of life & customer options
Skytap as a Lab Manager replacement
What did dev/test teams love about Lab Manager?
Simple and easy-to-use
On-demand self-service of complex environment
Collaboration features
Shared and private workspaces
Easy-to-manage networking
IT maintained, managed, and controlled resource usage
VMware key competency is IT management
Introduction of more expansive solutions• vCloud Directior
• vCloud Automation Center
Private cloud focus
Lab Manager EOL
Skytap as Lab Manager Replacement• Build specifically for lab-management
• Multi-VM/tired complex application environment templates
• Rich collaboration tools
• Shared & private workspaces
• In-memory “snapshots”
• Support for ESX & AWS EC2
• Highly extensible with REST API
Environments
Easy Access & Sharing
Projects
Visibility and Control
Enterprise SSO
User, group, & department management
Security policies
VPNs
Usage quotas ¬ifications
Watch the On-Demand Webinar
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