A huge win for the Community Lab
This morning I was informed that DynamicOps is going to donate the use of it’s flagship product VRM for use in the free lab. For those of you not familiar with DynmaicOps VRM (Virtual Resource Manager) it is a workflow automation product that boasts amazing flexibility for managing your virutal infrastructure. It will become the core of the lab. It will control user access, facilitate automatic provisioning of machines threw it’s self service web interface, control the duration of time a user can have access to a machines, distribute lab resources, assign lab moderators, allow for an approval process for requested machines, any many other functions based on it very wide set of features and functionality. VRM will also allow us to scale the lab out and make it very distributed by allowing others to host resources that will be made available to the community lab. VRM is so flexible and extensible that there is nothing we won’t be able achieve. I would like to thank the folks at DynamicOps for allowing us the use of this great tool to facilitate the creation and operation of the community lab, this is going to really make it something great.
I would also like to announce that a good friend of mine Tom Bonanno will be assuming the responsibilities of Lead Developer for the project. Even with great tools like VRM their will need to be a considerable amount of custom development to really make this lab a reality. Tom is a very talented programmer with extensive knowledge around PHP, .NET, C#, VB, and other languages. I’m very excited to have him on the project, he will be a great asset. Tom is also going to be given the ability to blog here on Dailyhypervisor so he can share some of his experiences while developing code for lab.
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