Undeploy all VM in lab manager 4.0

hi
is there a way to undeploy all VMs in lab manager vs going through each VM and undeploy individually? basically i want all VMs undeployed at the end of the day.
I read i can do this by disabling the pool and then i can undeploy. is this the best way of doing this?

You can undeploy all configurations at the datastore, organization, or resource pool level if you are a global administrator. Go to resources, one of the tabs for the resources types I listed, mouse of the name of the resource and select Undeploy.
The drawback to doing it this way is that all the configurations actually do an "undeploy - save state" and will write all memory to the hard drive so you'll need to make sure you have enough free space for that.
Otherwise you could do it via the API's by getting all configs and doing an undeploy - discard state.
Eric

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Ok I have a weird one for you hopefully someone can help and if so TIA!!!. I have Lab Manager 4.0 running and I am trying to move all my Hosts and VM's out and over to Vcenter 4.0 so I can shut down and quit using LM and some of my hosts are having problems. I have undeployed all my Vm's off the hosts and went thru the unprepare process and moved the hosts to a new cluster that was not created in Lab Manager and some of my hosts are fine but some are not. On the ones that are having issues when I migrate a Vm to it I cannot remote or ping the vm but I can ping the Host. Has anyone seen or had this happen to them? Again some of my hosts that I have migrated had no issue at all but some are. Should I go and add it back to LM and add the host then go thru the unprepare process again and see if that works? Any help would be much appreciated TIA.
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http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007029

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H iGuys,
Got a problem which i can't figure out. I have imported some VM's into our Lab Manager 4.0.4 setup and put them into the VM templates area (5 VM's in total, 2x windows 2008, 2 x windows 2003, and a unix). I then deploy them to ensure that they have imported ok, and they are fine, the static IP's are still in place as they should be, services start, and everything is fine.
So I then create a fenced configuration with the VM's in it, and deploy that configuration. when the VM's come up the windows 2008/windows 7 VM's run a windows configuration setup, and reboot again. When allthe VM's are up, they have all lost their static IP settings , and have been replaced by DHCP IP's.
I've now tried this with 2 VM sets and it does the same. I don't understand why the VM's work perfectly in the VM Templates, but as soon as i put them into a configuration they change.
Has anyone else seen this we have another setup in the the US on the same version of Lab Manager and the VM's work fine.
Mike

so here is the workflow difference you are seeing.
If you go from VM template to Workspace Configuration, it is "more normal" to perform guest customization. You'll also get a new MAC address and UUID in the VM. So be aware there are changes being made, and you'll have to re-configure network at minimum to use the assigned IP with fencing.
HOWEVER ... there is an easier method.
If you have several VMs in a pre-defined config that you want to use over and over ... That's what the Library is for. Made a configuration, save to library.
When you clone from Library to Workspace, Guest Customization is NOT performed as the Configuration is pre-defined and configured. The Fencing will automatically accomodate the existing IP structure and you don't have to modify the VMs at all.
This also saves you from having to build a configuration each time, and you can copy Some or All of a Library item to your workspace.
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Our management has asked for metrics on the use of Lab Manager so I started looking around and noticed that none of the 3rd party tools support Lab Manager. I started to poke around the SQL database and managed to extract some info however my SQL knowledge is very limited. I am wondering if anyone out there has written their own queries or can help me sort some things out.
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number of images captured to the library monthly
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Top 10 images checked out
Images not used in x days
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