Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Brian Harry MS — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:56:54 GMT

@Ted, yes.

Brian

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Ted Williams — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:51:13 GMT

Does TFS 2012 lab management support clustered Hyper-V hosts with SCVMM 2012 and VMM2012 SP1?

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

TD — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:06:59 GMT

Is it difficult to support snapshots with VMWare or is it a strategic decision to push HyperV?

If it is the former, then why is it difficult? If it is a matter of taking snapshots and being able to go back to a snapshot, then VMWare supports it anyway doesn't it? In which case isn't it a case of hooking into the right points in some form of a Lab Management API to execute the equivalent for VMWare or any virtualisation platform for that matter?

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Anu — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:04:53 GMT

Nick - you can have a single standard environment that wraps both physical machines and virtual machines into the same environment. Hope that helps

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Nick Gamroth — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:18:34 GMT

Is it going to be possible to have both VMs and physical machines in a single test environment?

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Brian Harry MS — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:20:38 GMT

Yes, we've enabled that in TFS 11.

Bran

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Matt Keen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:14:41 GMT

Are there are plans to allow Lab management to create environments on clustered hosts through SCVMM? This would be a really useful feature!

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Philip Coupar — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:42:41 GMT

Are there any plans to include Azure environments under lab manager. I would like to deploy my application to one or more Azure subscriptions run my test scripts and then teardown the environments.

Another useful feature would be to identify a subscription to populate with load test agents able to run codedUI tests and pre-installed with various browsers.

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Matthew Mitrik (MS) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:09:43 GMT

Robert, can you contact me directly? I'd like to understand your scenario more in depth. My email address is mmitrik at microsoft dot com

Thanks!

re: Lab Management improvements in TFS 11

Robert Beaubien — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:15:43 GMT

Matt, the problem with your suggestion is that when we delete the old team project the history of the moved team project is also lost, there's no + to follow the history back to the original team project because the orginal team project is deleted.

What we want is a way to MOVE (yes actually MOVE) the history and all of the metadata(I'm looking at annotions) to a new team project and then remove/delete/destroy the old team project and still retain the history and all of the metadata from the original team project in the new team project. Does this make sense?

It's also very troubling and doesn't instill confidence in the slightest that the history is available to be seen on folders...but not on the actual items themselves. That seems like a really weak implementation/design.