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VMware Virtual Lab Manager Beta Invitations

Saturday, 09 September 2006 by Michel Roth

From Virtualization.info: "After Akimbi acquisition in June (which has been worth $59 million), VMware is working hard to integrate Slingshot, now relabelled Virtual Lab Manager, in its product line.

Testers candidates have just received an invitation which details reaveals beta is expected to start on October 5th and final release is planned for end of this year.

Surprisingly versioning will continue Akimbi ones, considering the upcoming release as 2.4 instead of 1.0. Another surprise is the fact this first rebranded release will not able to manage VMware Server 1.0 and will not be integrated with VirtualCenter 2.0." Read on here.

VMware Virtual Lab Manager aimes to enable users to automate the set-up, capture and teardown of complex, multi-machine software configurations on a shared centralized pool of virtual resources and to rapidly configure those resources, on demand, through an intuitive self-service interface. Sounds to me that a great deal of the technology used in the Virtual Lab Manager could be leveraged to support VDI as well. Time will tell ....