Lab Manager Light extends existing virtualization farms like VMware vSphere and potentially others with advanced network and system management to build a private cloud without the complexity of running cloud solutions.

Users can provision and manage their own virtual machines, LML will:

• enforce VM name compliance with corporate standards
• set the host-name to the VM name
• assign VMs to users
• manage end-of-life dates for VMs
• integrate with corporate user accounts
• manage IP addresses through a DHCP server
• manage DNS names through a DNS server
• control PXE boot environment for automated installation of VMs
• manage host-based entries in a SVN repository for automated systems integration

LML communicates with the end-user through the existing GUIs of the virtualization farm and the virtual machines.

Take a look at the ArchitectureOverview and ScreenShots and follow the instructions at InstallationAndSetup to install LML.

For an introduction to Self Service Virtualization as a Private Cloud see my talk at the LinuxTalk 2011 (Access Presentation Slides).