Mixed-Access deployment is the most flexible of the three deployment types. The Client nodes are accessible from outside the Lab Management environment, that is, they are generally available to your entire company. The benefit of this deployment type is that Lab Management still manages it.
Applications that require access by developers and others in your company (non-developers) are the reason to adopt this Lab Management deployment configuration. For example, a Client node is set up to house a Beta copy of an application that your company is developing. The company wants the assistance of all types of its employees to test it. In this case, you get the ease-of-management of Lab Management machines (for testing and development) while enabling regular users to easily access them. The other Client nodes that are exclusive to the use of developers and testers also reside in this deployment and are protected from unauthorized use.
Lab Management's ability to manage multiple subnets makes Mixed-Access Deployment easy to set up. You can have one subnet with a routable network address and another subnet with a non-routable network address. The hosts on the routable network serve as the machines that the general public can access while those on the non-routable network serve Lab Management users through the Lab Management Manager. or Lab Management services.
Example of a Mixed-Access Deployment with a LOM Network
To enable a Mixed-Access Deployment, you must adhere to the following configuration rules:
- All Infrastructure nodes must be on the Direct-Access Deployment subnet.
- The Direct-Access Deployment subnet should be at least a /28 subnet (14 usable IP addresses) to hold all of the Infrastructure nodes and still have IP addresses available for the Client nodes.
- To make the deployment process easier, the Lab Management Manager should have its eth0 or eth1 interface on the Direct-Access Deployment subnet.
- If the Lab Management Manager is using a tagged VLAN, then you must rerun the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script manually to enable VMware's bridged network on the new VLAN interface. This is true only if you are running other Infrastructure nodes on your Lab Management Manager.