Lab Manager vs. VMware View for desktop VMs
We have been using lab manager for a long time and it is a great product. One of our new customers is using VMware View and it is nice to be able to log into their Windows XP VM they provide from...
View ArticlevCenter 5 with Lab Manager 4.0.4?
I know that there is no support for Lab Manager 4.0.4 and vCenter 5, but will it work? Or, when will it be supported? I can't imagine any reason why there would be a problem if I leave my host cluster...
View ArticleGet all workspace configurations of a user
Hi, is it possible to get a list of all workspace configurations of just one user? Using the api call ListConfigurations(1) gets all workspace configurations. But it is very time consuming doing the...
View ArticleClone to Library Error
Hi, We regularly create clones of configurations to our Lab Manager library but have recently been running into issues with it. I'm really not sure what the problem is and how to troubleshoot it, so...
View ArticleMove Lab Manager vms using LUN replication
I am planning to replace my external SAN but I have huge amount of data on my exisiting SAN i.e. around 7.5 TB, this mostly comprises of Lab Manager 4 vms, I am aware of the using SSMove utility to...
View ArticleCreate network template with no internet access
How do I create a network template that allows the machines in the configuration to talk to eachother but does not allow internet access?
View Articlei m getting error when i m accessing alb manager version 3."timeout...
Hi Team, i m getting error when i m accessing alb manager version 3."timeout expired.the timeout period elapsed prior to obtaing a connection from the pool.this may have occured bcz all pooled...
View Articlewhere is the location of undeployed VM
Hi All, I am new to VM ware lab manger (vcenter lab manger), I where will be the undeployed machine stored?, because I am not able to find in v sphere client After undeploying vm where it will be...
View ArticleLimiting Workspace to specific amount of VM's
We have 13 workspaces with 5-10 users in each workspace. We need to be able to limit the amount of VM's that can be deployed in each workspace. My understanding is that with Workspace quotas being per...
View ArticleInconsistent poweron failures saying parent disk missing
I've opened a support ticket on this (SR# 12169721004) but I thought I would ask here too.Thanks,Wayne Power on failures:I have failures when I power on a successfully deployed configuration. About...
View ArticleGlobal System Administrators
I am creating new Organizations so I can set Workspace Quotas and found that I have 10 users who are set as System Administrators at the Global Level. Which means when I create a new Organization they...
View ArticleDeploying a config but not booting all VM's in Lab Manager
Hey Guys, I have created a configuration that has 5 VM's in it for a training course we use, my question is..... Is there a way of deploying the config but not booting all the VM's, out of the 5 VM's I...
View ArticleReceiving "Input string was not in a correct format." switching organizations
I don't think anything has changed on the server, but all users including admin are receiving the following alert when attempting to switch between organizations: "Input string was not in a correct...
View ArticleLab Manager 4.0.4 and ESXi 4.1U3
ESXi 4.1 U3 has been recently published by VMware. Does LM 4.0.4 will work on this or VMware plan to release LM 4.0.5?I'm asking because I plan to upgrade our environment shortly and want to make sure...
View ArticleScreen resolution on console view
Hello, I have trouble with Lab Manager console view in IE (9.0.8112.16421). As I go to the lab manager http site and go to console view, all my computers have scroll bars and as I use the scroll bars...
View ArticleMoving Templates to different datastore
We are working on implementing quotas and in doing so are creating new Orgs/Workspaces. We have created some new Thin Provisioned templates and will ventually need to move these templates to a new...
View ArticleLab Manager vCenter 4.1 Linked mode
Hi Is anyone using Lab Manager 4 within a vCenter configured in Linked mode? I would like to enable linked mode, am checking for any gotchas anyone can share. Thanks in advance
View ArticleClone To Specific Workspace from Library
We have setup our environment so that we have a single custom Administrator role in each of our workspaces and they are the only ones that can deploy configurations. We want to limit them to only be...
View ArticleQuotas - 0
For organizational and workspace quotas there are a couple that we want to limit the amount to 0 but entering 0 in the quotas field sets the quota to unlimited. What entry do you put in for NONE.
View ArticleVM's resetting after deploying a configuration in Lab Manager 4.0.4
H iGuys, Got a problem which i can't figure out. I have imported some VM's into our Lab Manager 4.0.4 setup and put them into the VM templates area (5 VM's in total, 2x windows 2008, 2 x windows 2003,...
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