Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/442162_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 Today at TechEd Barcelona, Jason Zander announced that Visual Studio Team System 2010 will feature a brand new Lab Management capability to help organizations raise the bar on software quality. Lab Management will integrate with the rest of the Visual Studio to help testers more easily test a variety of configurations in a virtual lab environment, and help developers more easily repro bugs by delivering snapshots of those virtualized environments after bugs are discovered. I had a chance to sit down with Ram Cherala and Vinod Malhotra to get an in-depth look at how this will work.This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download. en Sun, 26 May 2013 08:06:27 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 08:06:27 GMT Rev9 Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 Looks really helpful, a few quick questions:

Where can I get my hands on it to try Smiley

Does it make a complete copy of the virtual machine or does it used linked clones, seems to take a long time to set up the test machines.

If I have Virtual machine manager 2008 installed, can I use my ESX servers as well as Hyper-V?

Does it support multimonitor, can I open connections to each VM on different monitors?

Where are the images stored, I kind of got the impression that there would be VM going into TFS, which would be a really space issue!

And finally can I create an environment add machines and then template all the machines as a whole?

posted by PerfectPhase

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633620269550000000 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:02:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633620269550000000 PerfectPhase Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 http://blog.skytap.com/2008/10/visual-studio-team-system-screencast/

They already provide Virtual Lab Management and it's available as an on-demand cloud service over the web, so you can get going with this technology today without having to invest in lab infrastructure

posted by DaveCl

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633620507480000000 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:39:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633620507480000000 DaveCl Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 >> Does it make a complete copy of the virtual machine or does it used linked clones, seems to take a long time to set up the test machines.

For now, when an environment is copied back and forth from the library, we do make complete copies. We plan to use linked clones (differencing disks) as an additional option in the future. For filing bugs, you can just use checkpoints and do not have to make complete copies. 


>> If I have Virtual machine manager 2008 installed, can I use my ESX servers as well as Hyper-V?

Yes, since Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 abstracts virtualization platform for Lab Manager. There will be certain limitation with ESX though.

>> Does it support multimonitor, can I open connections to each VM on different monitors?

Yes! You can launch mutiple instances of Lab Environment Viewer (LEV) and simultaneously interact with different VMs in different instances of LEV on different monitors.


>> Where are the images stored, I kind of got the impression that there would be VM going into TFS, which would be a really space issue!

The VM images are stored in library servers managed by VMM, not in TFS.


>> And finally can I create an environment add machines and then template all the machines as a whole?

Yes, you can templatize an already created multi-tier environment.

posted by Vinod Malhotra

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633621121960000000 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:43:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633621121960000000 Vinod Malhotra Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 posted by santosh_b

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633621767160000000 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:38:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633621767160000000 santosh_b Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 Thanks for the reply, really looking forward to getting my hands on this!

posted by PerfectPhase

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633622835420000000 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:19:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633622835420000000 PerfectPhase Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010

posted by mj.liu

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633698547560000000 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:25:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633698547560000000 mj.liu Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010
Hello there,

We are currently using VMWare to rollback and perform nightly tests. The drawback is after a month, the VM 'expires'. Has Microsoft thought this through? Do you support Kerbros etc? Are there any workarounds?

http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7129

Thanks
mblake at imeta.co.uk

posted by mikeblake

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633765929320000000 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:08:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633765929320000000 mikeblake Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010
In you demo when you created check-point, is there anyways user can provide CUSTOM name to it insted of system generated name (this is a feature request from me)

It sounded like TFS is a must for this product to report BUGs or we can use our bug system? As far as I know TFS is expensive, so what options we have to avoid TFS?

posted by prasannap

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633767264030000000 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:13:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633767264030000000 prasannap Re: Lab Management coming to Visual Studio Team System 2010 It's just me or the video is not available?

 

Thanks to check!

posted by landrys

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633844717760000000 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:42:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010#c633844717760000000 landrys