It is wonderful to note that you recognize and share our passion re: the provisioning, management and life cycle of virtualized infrastructure! Addressing these challenging problems is what keeps us going!

At the risk of pointing out something that you/your readers might be aware of already, VMLogix LabManager is a virtual lab automation solution that addresses the same problems that you note. Our product supports advanced levels of automation (to drive self-service IT on the provisioning front) and mature support for centralized virtual infrastructure management (across leading hypervisors from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware). The product enables user/team collaboration, VM config libraries, resource reclamation, resource audit trails and so on.

When you/your readers get a moment, do check out our blog at http://blog.vmlogix.com and our site at http://www.vmlogix.com

You may find this link also useful:

http://www.vmlogix.com/Virtual-Lab-Automation-V…

If you need any further information, please drop me a note at srihari@vmlogix.com

Once again, thank you for recognizing the importance of the problem!

Srihari Palangala, VMLogix