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Deploying and PortGroups

venzent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:21:35 GMT

Ok, thanks.

As I understood we can freely upgrade to LM4, so will look into that.

Stage Manager conflicts with the Lab Manager agent running on host "XX". Uninstall the Lab Manager agent before trying to prepare the host.

bferguson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:16:21 GMT

Open a putty session to the ESX service console and log in as root and run this command: uninstall-labmanager

See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007029

server license and capacity license??

squarecn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:59:38 GMT

thanks a lot

i will uninstall 1.0.0,and try installing 1.0.1

hope the license can work

Patching several instances of the same application at a single time

VmSolution — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:39:00 GMT

Hi,

I am using stage manager to deploy several instances of the same
application (application and DB reside on the same VM) in a managed services environment. Is it possible to use
stage manager to patch all the instances with just a single "patch and
deploy" process. If yes, can you pls. point me to documentation that describes this. If not, does stage manager expose api's that can be used to custom program this feature .

Regards,

Raja

Using Stage Manager and Lab Manager together

Canicula — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:47:46 GMT

Desmond, Did you additional materials you mention make it to the VI:OPS site?

I'm looking at installing LifeCycle manager, Stage Manager and Lab Manager in out VI3.5 demo/dev/qa/test system.

Ian

Using Stage Manager to create Replica / Test environments of Production

edinel — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:19:35 GMT

Peter--

Yes, Stage Manager is specifically designed to manage the pre-production (in your case, "isolated Test") environment. When Stage Manager is used to manage your pre-production and production infrastructure, it can be used to clone production workloads and make them available for pre-production work--patching testing, for example. Stage Manager suspends the virtual machines being cloned for the duration of that clone. If the clones being taken are "linked clones" that time can be very short--about a minute, in most cases. If the clones being taken are full clones, that time can be very long, depending on the size of your virtual machines. The product documentation should have more information on the differences between linked and full clones.

Eddie Dinel
Product Manager

Stage Manager in Pharma industry

BRockwell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:13 GMT

Hi -

Just wondering if anyone out there is using Stage manager in the pharma industry? With GxP and SOX regulations and the whole promote to production/validation lifecycle, this product seems to fill a real niche for pharma. I was hoping to tap into what some other IT people in my industry are doing and what their experience with Staging manager has been.

Thanks,

Brandon Rockwell
Infrastructure Team Lead

Creating Multi linked Clone

puzzledtux — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:37:11 GMT

I think when you deploy from template then you are actually creating a linked clone of the base disk. When you consolidate the virtual machine at that time the clone is commited with the base disk.

error installating eval copy of stage manager on windows 2003 ent server

puzzledtux — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:05:49 GMT

The issue was resolved. There were some orphaned users from the previous installation which I deleted in Windows 2003. The installation succeeded later on.

Concurrent connections to a VM through stage manager ?

puzzledtux — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:27:33 GMT

Using the web only single console of the virtual machine is made available which is accessible to all of the connected users. So at a time only one person can work on the virtual machine using the web console.

Stage Manager vs. Lab Manager

Sticky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:44:08 GMT

It would be nice to have someone from VMware CLEARLY define the technical differences between the two products. There is plenty of marketing babble about how they are meant for different situations, but that doesn't tell us the real differences. I think I have a good understanding of the two, however I would like to see this from VMware. It is easy to find material regarding the differences from say VMware Server vs. ESX why not these two products.

Thanks,

Sticky

Correct use of stage manager

david.sullivan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:07:10 GMT

I am just curious how others are intending to use Stage Manager. My intent is to use it to make quick copies of production for things like testing patch deployment, and duplicating production environments for testing. I don't however want to have to bring my production environment down in order to make a clone in the fenced environment. That being the case, would I import all of my servers into Stage Manager, and build all new servers through Stage Manager, promote them to production, and leave them in there. That way when I want a quick copy I just create a delta copy from the original. I realize there will be some performance degradation, and my stage manager environment could grow quite large. Just wondering if the intent of Stage Manage was to house a copy of all production machines so they can be quickly deployed into test environments.

Stage Manager Usability Study

agrude — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:53:23 GMT

Hi,

The User Experience team at VMware is looking for Lab Manager and Stage Manager users to participate in a usability study. Sessions will take place onsite in Palo Alto for local users and via WebEx for remote users.

We will be testing designs for future versions of LM and SM while still in the prototype phase, so by participating you will have the opportunity to influence the direction of the products and share opinions with the developers and product management team.

If you're interested, please contact Amy Grude (agrude@vmware.com.)

Location: VMware in Palo Alto or WebEx
Date(s): October 20th - 24th
Compensation: $150 (probably via gift card)

Thanks!

Amy Grude
User Experience Researcher

Stage Manager Query

Crawfy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:03:38 GMT

We would like to start using it soon for our developers, but am aware that it is still a 1.0 product and the interface, etc does not seem as polished and intuitive as it perhaps could be. Does anyone know when the next release will be?

How 2 manually uninstall Stage Manager Agent from esx host?

TCP — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:46:39 GMT

Yes it's worked.

Great thanks for your help.

SM Fenced Config Issue

_morpheus_ — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:34:23 GMT

I don't know of any easy way to do this. Stage Manager will undeploy your fenced config if it notices you doing anything to the network settings. For example, if you add a second NIC to one of your fenced VM's and try to connect this NIC to another portgroup, the entire config will get force-undeployed by stage manager. If you do anything to the fenced portgroup it will also get undeployed, i.e. if you try to create a VM that has connections to the fenced portgroup and the production portgroup.

Importing from Virtual Center Errors

riteshtijoriwala — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:23:56 GMT

How big is the size of the VM that you are trying to import? Try to change the timeout settings in the Settings page if those values are small.

StageManager Installation Issue

_morpheus_ — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:53:55 GMT

I sent a private message

v2p solution

fbenne — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:19:38 GMT

Hi,

in the case were your prd needs to run on physical boxes you have a broad set of tools to choose from (Platespin, VMware V2P Whitepaper, HP has tools in case you run HP servers, ....). You may also want to search the forum because this is not a Stage-Manager-only-Challenge.

Cheers,

Florian

Initialization: Cannot attach Resource Pool

fbenne — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:09:03 GMT

Hi,

did you register the pool before and then had it deleted/re-created with VC? Can you register Resource Pools other than "test"?

Regards,

Florian

Lab Manager + Stage Manager question

swamy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:06:35 GMT

I have gone through few docs and found that lab manager best suits for dev-test env and stage manager fits for integration, staging (pre-production env). But my question is what does the default stages dev and testing in the default service template indicates? (does this mean stage manager also replaces lab manager?)

Licensing structure

edinel — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:38:29 GMT

davez0r--

Stage Manager is licensed per CPU (socket) under management. If your four ESX servers have 2 CPU each, you need to purchase a quantity of 8 for "VMware Stage Manager for 1 processor". The server portion, the part that you actually install, is included as part of the per-processor licensing. You can think of it as if you're purchasing agents and getting the server for free.

To answer your other question--Stage Manager requires VI3 Standard or Enterprise.

Thanks!

Eddie Dinel
Product Manager, VMware Stage Manager