VMware has produced a new test product, Lab Manager, to help control and manage virtual machines.
The company marketing manager Richard Garsthagen explained: "You don't have to set up new VMs (virtual machines), just but one template library for all the VMs that can be deployed out. Lab Manager uses link cloning - it creates new VMs that are based on central disk set. As a developer, I don't copy masses of data, I just get changes from the originals."
Lab Manager automates the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-machine software configurations through a Web-based portal. VMware Infrastructure allows Lab Manager to work with other VMware products in a process the company calls virtual software lifecycle automation.
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