Working with virtualization product integrations

The function that this topic describes might not be available, depending on how lab management permissions and client access licenses have been defined for your user account. If you are integrated with an external provider that manages virtual images and machines, you can view, deploy, and assign test environments to virtual collections in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. A virtual collection is a logical grouping of either virtual images or virtual machines that represent application topologies.

Before you begin

You must be integrated with an external provider that manages virtual images and machines, for example, VMLogix or Surgient.

About this task

To work with virtual collections:

Procedure

  1. Point to Lab Management (Lab Management), and click All Virtual Collections. The All Virtual Collections editor opens.
  2. In View, select Virtual Image Collections or Virtual Machine Collections. The collection is displayed with the collection name, description, and associated test environments.
  3. To refresh the list of collections, click the Refresh icon (Refresh).
  4. If you need a new test environment for the collection, first create it, and then continue with this step. To assign a test environment to a collection, select a collection, and then click the Assign a Test Environment icon (Assign configuration). A list of test environments is displayed. Select a test environment, and click Add.
  5. To deploy a virtual image collection, select the collection, and then click the Deploy icon (Deploy VM). This action creates a collection of virtual machines that are based on these images. You can check the progress of the deployment in the inventory history view. When the deployment is complete, you can work with the machine collection that was created. For example, you can run test scripts remotely on those machines.
  6. When you are finished using the virtual machines, you can undeploy them to free up resources on the host system. To undeploy a virtual machine collection, select the virtual machine collection, and then click the Undeploy virtual machines icon (Undeploy virtual).

    You can also deploy and undeploy individual virtual images and machines that are managed by an external provider application. However, you cannot deploy or undeploy virtual images or virtual machines that are manually created in Rational Quality Manager.


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