VMLogix enables IT departments to consolidate and automate lab IT infrastructure so that virtualized labs can be shared on-demand among multiple teams with minimal system administration and monitoring.

VMLogix LabManager helps IT departments empower development, test and support teams to build, snapshot, share and deploy production-like environments on-demand. Using advanced team management, quotas, reporting and audit trails, IT departments can run the lab in auto-pilot mode, intervening only when exceptions occur or when lab hardware and software resources need to be added or modified.

Usage Scenarios:

• Centralize and manage lab infrastructure, share pooled resources and set policies and quotas for users and teams
• Create virtual machine labs on top of popular virtualization platforms from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware
• Create gold machine images, ISOs and software packages that can be used by teams to build single and multi-machine configurations without requiring support from IT
• Control which users and teams have access to the lab with fine grained access controls and authentication against Active Directory and LDAP.
• Ensure license compliance by specifying the number of operating system and application licenses available for use in virtual machines.
• Allow multiple users to safely deploy concurrent copies of suspended multi-machine configurations without changing MAC addresses, static IP addresses or Windows SIDs.
• Make the most of shared storage with advanced compression algorithms. Optimize storage of virtual machines using linked clones and differential disks.
• Track user access to the lab management system through fine grained security controls & audit trails
• Monitor lab resource utilization ? track all key lab resources through graphical and tabular reporting mechanisms
• Use available external storage to store lab management artefacts & data ? flexibly map each external storage to one or more virtual hosts