Software Lifecycle Automation
VMware Lab Manager, VMware Virtual Center, and VMware Workstation work together to form the industry's only complete, closed-loop system for software lifecycle automation by leveraging the encapsulation, mobility, and insulation properties of virtual machines hosted on the VMware Infrastructure platform.
From development and test, through integration, staging, deployment, and management, VMware offers a comprehensive framework for virtual software lifecycle automation that streamlines these adjacent, yet often disconnected processes, and closes the loops between them. Examples of the capabilities provided by VMware software lifecycle automation solutions include:
- Share software configurations between distributed development centers reducing duplicative provisioning
- Provide remote lab access and desktop hosting for offsite or offshore development resources, minimizing duplication of lab equipment at each site
- Close the loop between software development and quality assurance. Capture and move defect state configurations to reproduce and resolve defects on demand
- Clone a configuration in production using Virtual Center and effortlessly move it back to a VMware environment for security patch testing by QA
VMware Software Lifecycle Automation Solutions
- Push a staged configuration into production following user acceptance testing thereby minimizing errors injected through rebuilding systems for production
- Migrate running configurations between data centers and/or physical resources to recover from failures, thereby ensuring business continuity
See the following whitepaper for more information: http://www.VMware.com/pdf/vsla_whitepaper.pdf
