[NetPontoNews] Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

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Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

The integration between Visual Studio 2010, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 and Hyper-V 1.0/2.0 for virtual lab automation scenarios is now a reality called Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management.

The Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Lab Management Team has recently started a blogthat introduces to the virtual lab automation and the capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 that is well worth a subscription. 
Here’s a small excerpt from their first article:

The lab management service in TFS uses System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for management of lab infrastructure and provisioning of virtual machines across multiple virtualization platforms. You get a copy of SCVMM with Lab Management.

Microsoft Test and Lab Manager is a Windows Presentation Foundation based rich client. The Lab Center in Test and Lab Manager allows you to

· Create and manage virtual or physical environments

· Take environment snapshots or revert to existing snapshots for virtual environments

· Interact with the virtual machines in the environments through environment viewer

· Define test settings for the environments

You can define test plans, test suites and test cases in the Testing Center and execute them on the lab environments.

At the heart of this product there is the concept of the workflow:

Lab Management workflow activities are bundled with Team Foundation Build Service. You can drag and drop these activities in Windows workflow designer to create custom workflows that allow you to

· quickly provision a virtual environment

· revert to ‘clean’ environment in tens of seconds by using environment snapshot instead of running multiple ‘cleanup’ scripts or reinstalling OS and application prerequisites

· using distributed workflow, run setup and configuration scripts on virtual machines

· Take post deployment environment snapshots, etc

The release is out by Microsoft VS Team in the Visual Studio 2010 Products.

 

Source:

http://virtualization.info/en/news/2009/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-lab.html

 

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