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Multi-Machine Configurations

  • Create multi-machine configurations in seconds using machine templates - no limit on machine count, no manual adjustments
  • View configurations in use with thumbnail console views, public-private scoping and list filtering
  • Act on machines in a configuration as a unit: suspend, multi-snapshot, revert to, shutdown, turn on, turn off, suspend, reset, deploy, undeploy, clone, capture to library, and modify properties
  • Share templates and multi-machine configurations between users
  • Get LiveLink capability - URL-based sharing of captured live configurations - "send me a LiveLink"
  • Interact with all configuration consoles side-by-side on a single browser page
  • Set up machines in a configuration to boot in controlled sequence

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Configuration Library

  • Check out of configurations with memory and CPU state preserved nearly instantaneously
  • Enjoy simultaneous use of library configurations by multiple users without changing MAC and IP addresses or SID, using VMware's network fencing
  • Maximize library entries per storage server due to efficient storage compression algorithms 
  • Control settings for public and private library entries
  • Set up public-private scoping and list filtering of library

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Media Library

  • Store all development and test media in a central repository
  • Tag media with descriptive attributes
  • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share
  • Easily make media available to VMware-managed virtual machines
  • Implement public-private scoping and list filtering of library

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Deployment

  • Initiate deployment from your browser- or web service
  • Copy from or execute from storage server
  • Configurate machine deployment granularity
  • Set up automatic load balancing of machines deployed on host servers
  • Get Side-by-side execution of cloned configurations across physical server boundaries, even when IP addresses duplicated on a subnet
  • Select your provisioning heuristic - rapid start, maximized performance
  • Set lease times to automatically undeploy expired configurations

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Machine Templates

  • Instantly create new machines from templates with distinct personalization- automated assignment of MAC and IP addresses, and SID (for Windows systems)
  • Create new templates via cloning and modification of existing templates
  • Import pre-existing VM images for use as templates
  • Automatically install mouse and keyboard enhancements for VMs
  • Set up optional Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) capability for storage and management of existing machines
  • Configure public-private scoping and list filtering of templates

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Resource Management

  • Automatically track and issue IP addresses
  • Manage storage server setup with add, delete, refresh, modify properties
  • Configure managed servers with add, delete, refresh, agent upgrade, remove from service, modify properties
  • Set expiration dates for unused configurations to be removed from storage
  • Quickly shift virtual machines off a managed server so it can be taken down for maintenance
  • Display a graphical view of disk space consumption and a configuration dependency tree

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Monitoring

  • See an active unified "in motion" view of server pool and VM operations
  • Ata-a-glance visibility over utilization, performance and activity
  • Drill-down on server, configuration and machine details
  • View all deployed machines 
  • View events and job logs

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Web Services and Command Line Interface (Automation API)

  • Full programmatic control of capture-and-restore operations
  • Out-of-the-box automation with leading test automation tools
  • Standards-based interface (SOAP, WSDL, HTTP)
  • Sample .NET and Java code illustrating use of APIs

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Administration and Security

  • User, permission and quota management
  • Out-of-the-box support for LDAP
  • Administrator role assignment to multiple users
  • User self-managed preferences
  • Context-sensitive on-screen help

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Installation

  • Standard Windows setup.exe installer for all components
  • Automated addition of managed servers to deployment pool

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Supported Managed Server Environments

  • VMware Infrastructure 3

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Product Integrations

  • Packaged integrations available for HP® Quality Center, Borland® Silk™ Central Test Manager, etc.

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