Moving from VMWare lab manager to VCloud
Hello, I’m a developer who uses VMware Lab Manager to do a lot of testing. Our company is moving to VCloud, and I’ve taken a look at it. It appears to be flash based with half of the stuff labeled, and generally unusable. Are there any alternative interfaces I can use for this? I don’t mind a command-line interface but am not sure how all the authentication would work since it appears that we semi integrate with active directory since when we log in we have to enter the same id and password we use to get onto the domain. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
There is a PowerCLI interface to VCD, but when I looked at it last it really didn't get you the full functionality that the GUI does, and you're right, its all but useless with a screen reader. Lab Manager itself was a paine, but I could do it. We went through this transition ourselves earlier this year, and before I got pulled off of VMWare and moved into AD and more Windows admin, I had no clue how I'd admin VCD. Also, just from a technical point of view, so far we're not that happy with VCD compared to Lab Manager. VCD is a more robust platform by far and way more capable, but just not as stable. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jared Stofflett [stofflet@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:41 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Moving from VMWare lab manager to VCloud Hello, I’m a developer who uses VMware Lab Manager to do a lot of testing. Our company is moving to VCloud, and I’ve taken a look at it. It appears to be flash based with half of the stuff labeled, and generally unusable. Are there any alternative interfaces I can use for this? I don’t mind a command-line interface but am not sure how all the authentication would work since it appears that we semi integrate with active directory since when we log in we have to enter the same id and password we use to get onto the domain. Any thoughts would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
There is a PowerCLI interface to VCD, but when I looked at it last it really didn't get you the full functionality that the GUI does, and you're right, its all but useless with a screen reader. Lab Manager itself was a paine, but I could do it. We went through this transition ourselves earlier this year, and before I got pulled off of VMWare and moved into AD and more Windows admin, I had no clue how I'd admin VCD. Also, just from a technical point of view, so far we're not that happy with VCD compared to Lab Manager. VCD is a more robust platform by far and way more capable, but just not as stable. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jared Stofflett [stofflet@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:41 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Moving from VMWare lab manager to VCloud Hello, I’m a developer who uses VMware Lab Manager to do a lot of testing. Our company is moving to VCloud, and I’ve taken a look at it. It appears to be flash based with half of the stuff labeled, and generally unusable. Are there any alternative interfaces I can use for this? I don’t mind a command-line interface but am not sure how all the authentication would work since it appears that we semi integrate with active directory since when we log in we have to enter the same id and password we use to get onto the domain. Any thoughts would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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