Managed virtual images and managed virtual machines are
logical groupings of either virtual images or virtual machines that
represent application topologies. An example of managed virtual images
could be a collection of one virtual image for a Web server and another
virtual image for a database server that are used together. Managed
virtual images and managed virtual machines can have test environments
associated with them that describe the application topology that they
represent.
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. You must be integrated with an external
provider, such as VMLogix or Surgient or another tool that manages
virtual images and machines, to view or use managed virtual images
or virtual machines. For information about setting up the integration
of the external provider application and
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager,
see the product documentation for the external provider application.
Managed virtual images and managed virtual machines are synchronized
from an external provider. You cannot manually create them. The external
provider applications provide information about the virtual images
and virtual machines that is visible in Rational Quality Manager. The
user can create a test environment for managed virtual images or managed
virtual machines. The test environment describes what is created if
a managed virtual image is deployed and virtual machines are created
from the images. For example, users could see a managed virtual image
imported into Rational Quality Manager,
that contains a virtual image that they recognize as their Web server
test environment. They could then create a test environment that describes
their Web server and add it to the managed virtual image to identify
it for other users.