Visual Studio Lab Management

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Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments. Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab. Since Visual Studio 2012, it is already shipped as a part of it; and, can be set up after Azure DevOps and SCVMM are integrated. ^[1]

Virtual Environment

A virtual environment is a collection of virtual machines (VMs). Each Virtual Machine in a virtual environment represents a role required for the application that is to be tested, developed or run. Lab Management can be used to start all the virtual machines in a virtual environment to run an application, or test an application. Lab Management uses System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to allow access to virtual machines or templates in a library as golden masters. These golden masters are created by using either Hyper-V or SCVMM. SCVMM is used to deploy the virtual machines and templates in the environments on the specified host group.

Using Lab Management for application lifecycle management

Visual Studio Lab Management is integrated with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to enable management of multiple physical computers that host virtual machines and to manage the storage of virtual machines, virtual machine templates, and other configuration files in SCVMM library servers.^[2] It enables users to:

Reproduce the exact conditions of a bug or other development issue
Build, deploy, and test applications automatically in a clean environment
Reduce the time required to create and configure machines for testing an application
Run multiple copies of a test or development at the same time
Create and manage virtual environments without requiring system administrator privileges

References

^ "Installing TFS 2012 with Lab Management 2012". 20 June 2012.
^ "Using a virtual lab for your application lifecycle". 29 September 2016.

External links

Visual Studio 2010 Lab management
Configuring and administering lab management

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