Announced for the first time at VMworld 2007, launched in beta in January, and expected for Q2 2008, the newest automation from VMware, Stage Manager (VSM), entered in the beta 2 phase last week.
The new build (1471) introduces several new capabilities and enhancements like:
- Change history View an annotated history of actions on a configuration.
- Guest customization This feature replaces the VM Personalizer utility.
- Service template Stage Manager administrators can set up and change a default service template, used for creation of new services
- Partial deployment of configurations Deploy portions of a configuration rather than the whole configuration.
- Demote configuration Demote a configuration to any prior stage.
Enroll for the beta program here.