http://www.itworld.com/vmware-lab-manager xx http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/54525/book-vmware-esx-server-enterprise VMware ESX creates a myriad of problems for administrators, specifically problems having to do with the scheduling of various operations around the use of normal tools and other everyday activities such as deployments, VMotion to balance nodes, and backups. Most, if not all, the limitations revolve around issues related to performance gathering and the data stores upon which VMs are placed, whether SCSI, including iSCSI, or non-VMDK files accessed from NFS shared off a NAS or some other system. http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/54525/book-vmware-esx-server-enterprise#comments Virtualization Feature VMware Lab Manager Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:11:31 -0400 ITworld staff 54525 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/54022/vmware-tool-aims-help-developers VMware wants to make it easier for IT departments to manage the virtual machine configurations that they use for testing or developing software, and will release an upgraded Lab Manager tool on Thursday. http://www.itworld.com/development/54022/vmware-tool-aims-help-developers#comments Development SOA Virtualization News VMware VMware Lab Manager Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:08:24 -0400 abennett 54022 at http://www.itworld.com