VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - Stage Manager

server license and capacity license??

squarecn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:28:09 GMT

can anyone tell me where to get capacity license??? I had just registered an account in the VMware website,then I downloaded the stagemanager software and obtained a evaluation license.but when I installed and configured stagemanager, I found that it needed two license--server license and capacity license, I only have such a evaluation license, what can I do？

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

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

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?

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?)