Self-Service Portal
Provide on-demand access to shared infrastructure for non-IT users to create, deploy
and reconfigure multi-tier system configurations in seconds without IT involvement. Self-service management reduces administrative
burden and infrastructure management costs for IT and empowers the business to execute company strategy, get to market faster
and grow top-line revenue.
- 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.
Image Library
Provides a central repository of virtual machine images for Lab Manager users. System configurations can be
captured in state for quick deployment, archival and sharing with other users. The image library stores system configurations
in a highly compact format, reducing storage footprints and containing storage growth.
- 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.
Organizations
Simplifies
delivery and administration of internal cloud infrastructure, and enable end users to “consume” internal resources
in a controlled and predictable manner. IT can dynamically allocate resources to multiple teams, projects and sites, enforce
policy-based access control, and reclaims unused resources.
- Workspaces
provide a single pane of glass for Lab Manager users to access, create and control system configurations available to them.
- Resource containers map dedicated or
shared server, datastore and network environments to groups of users, and can be allocated dynamically or with fixed size.
- Roles & Rights provide granular access control to over 50 Lab
Manager commands and properties.
- Quotas &
Deployment Leases allow administrators to set policies for the number and length of concurrent VM deployments for
users and groups.
- “Live Link”
enables sharing of complete application environments as a single URL embedded in an email or bug tracking system.
- Network Fencing allows virtual machine configuration clones to be
deployed simultaneously, preserving the original system settings without causing network conflict.
- Host Spanning allows network fenced configurations to be deployed
across multiple physical hosts if the VM configuration is too large to fit on a single machine (requires vSphere Enterprise
Plus)
