| Automated Lab Management |
Centralized IT Lab Management
Citrix Essentials for XenServer reduces the complexity, time and cost of managing non-production environments typically used in development, test, support and training organizations. Automated lab management enables organizations to accelerate and improve the process of moving application workloads through testing and into the production environment while reducing virtual machine sprawl and minimizing configuration errors and delays.
Create complex configurations quickly
The Web-based Lab Manager console provides role-based access to a rich set of tools. Users can select from a self-service library of templates to quickly create server and workstation configurations for pre-deployment acceptance testing, product development and quality assurance, technical support triage or standardized training and demonstration environments. Additional configuration tasks such as installing applications, running scripts or defining the startup order and dependencies are pre-configured and automated. When provisioning, the package is deployed at the touch of a button.
Once tasks have been completed, the resources can be manually or automatically reclaimed releasing valuable resources back to the pool. Snapshots of the system can be saved and shared for deeper problem investigation or utilized as golden configurations for deployment to production environments.