Yes, a combination of Lab Manager and Stage Manager will fit your needs in an internal Dev/QA/Test/Demo environment. We at VMware are developing a whitepaper on using these two products together and you can expect it to be published in the near future.

Typically development labs and pre-production environments are not mixed in an IT environment since the former contains virtual machines that can be customized for developer needs and the latter needs to comply with strict IT policies. As you know, Lab Manager targets at needs in development labs and Stage Manager targets at pre-production environments. We see Lab Manager and Stage Manager being utilized in separate infrastructures. That being said, Lab Manager and Stage Manager manages different servers. The Agent software of each product needs to be installed on the managed servers, yet you cannot install both Agents on the same server. It is possible to have the servers sharing the same VI datastore (a LUN in a SAN), yet you might want to keep the datastores separate for these two products for easier management.

The paper will tell you more about how to configure resource pools, etc. Please stay tuned.

Regards,

Desmond