Visual Studio Team Lab Management is a new member of the Visual Studio Team 2010 family of products. By using Lab Management, you can create, provision, and manage virtual environments that members of a team project can use to develop, deploy, and test their software application. To learn more about how Lab Management simplifies application development and testing, see Virtualizing the Application Lifecycle.

On the server side, Lab Management is one of the many services running inside Team Foundation Server. You can now map your lab resources, such as physical hosts, virtual machines, and storage to team project collections and team projects, thereby aligning lab resource use with the business needs for the projects your teams working on.

As an administrator, you perform tasks to set up and configure Lab Management, and to administer Lab Management on an ongoing basis. For information about how to set up and configuring Lab Management, see Configuring Lab Management. For information about the ongoing administration tasks, see Administering Lab Management.