In order to use the virtual machines in Lab Manager on a domain you have to do some customization.
For starters - the templates themselves can *NOT* be on a domain, LM Tools will not install on a machine already joined to a domain.
If you already have a custom ISO created in Lab Manager, delete it. […]

I recently ran into a problem where a user accidently reverted to a snapshot within Lab Manager, they didn’t realize this at first and by the time they did I had upgrade Lab Manager to the latest version (2.5.3). This ended up being a bit of a pain so I thought I would document […]

If you use VMware Lab Manager and Virtual Center you have probably noticed a lot of orphaned virtual machines within your VI Client.
VMware has a tool you can install on your Lab Manager server to automatically clean up these orphans.

Download the tool from here (you will need to rename the extension to .msi) and install […]

This seems to be a lesser known option, but if you want to pass through your domain credentials to the Virtual Center server add the following at the end of the VI Client shortcut.
-passthroughAuth -s <vcservername>

Recently I have setup a NLB IIS site with 2 VM’s in a DRS/HA cluster.  Because of this using unicast mode was not an option (we need to be able to vMotion the virtual machines).  Multicast is also the way VMware recommends setting it up.  From VMware’s site:
Note: VMware recommends configuring the cluster to use […]

I’ve been studying pretty hard for my VMware VCP certification lately, and needed to learn more about DRS/HA etc.  Without a few tweaks you cannot run ESX inside of Workstation, but here is how you can do it with Workstation 6.  Note: you need to have an Intel VT capable chipset with it enabled […]