Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2

Re:Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2 by phuff on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @06:19PM (#2010271)

One problem I've had at every place employment I've worked at in the last few years is getting a VM which matches production to use as a sandbox. With this kind of thing it would make that a snap. "What's the difference between this and production?" "Nothing. It's the same image."

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Re:Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2 by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @06:23PM (#2010292)

Yep

Not only that, but many enterprise systems are not just a server, or even a couple of servers, but a cluster of servers of various configurations.

With good bandwidth, you could pull the entire bunch down locally to use in dev and testing. That's unheard of as far as I know (although it has been the holy grail for some time) Businesses that start and grow in an environment like this are going to have significant advantages over older businesses.

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Re:Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2 by nopal on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @11:06PM (#2011073)

VMWare offers a tool that solves this problem -- Lab Manager (http://www.vmware.com/products/labmanager/).

It even supports setting up environments that contain isolated clones of multiple servers (see other child comment).

From what I understand it's going to be replaced with a new product fairly soon, but I've heard great things about Lab Manger.

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Re:Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2 by howradical on Thursday December 16, 2010 @12:18AM (#2011186)

Check out DevStructure blueprints (http://devstructure.com).

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