In this lesson, you, in the role of lab manager, search
for and reserve a lab resource for 24 hours.
You can search for a lab resource that matches the hardware
and software configurations that you need for your testing effort.
When you open a list of all lab resources, you can click a lab resource
ID to see details about the hardware and installed software. You can
determine whether the lab resource is currently available. You can
then select the lab resource and reserve it for 24 hours.
To locate
and reserve a lab resource for immediate use:
- Point to the Lab Management icon
(
), and click View
Lab Resources. The View Lab Resources editor opens.
- Expand the View Builder section
and in Type, select Machine
- In Availability, select Today. From and Until are
populated with today's date and times.
- Click Run. Lab resources that are
available today are displayed.
- Find the physical machine (Server1) that was defined in
lesson 2.1.
- Select Server1, and then click the Reserve
Machine icon (
). The
reserve status of Server1 is updated.