Dec 2, 2008 : RackForce Adds Virtual Machine Manager

📅 December 2, 2008 - Under increasing pressure to manage its growing virtual environment, dynamic dedicated server provider RackForce (rackforce.com) has installed Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to centralize and streamline the management of its virtual machines developed through Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.


The first hosting service provider to bring Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 technology to market, RackForce is one of many hosting providers that have been looking for effective solutions to better manage their new virtualized IT environments, according to its Monday announcement. With hundreds of customers steadily expanding the company's data centre, RackForce found it difficult to manage the company's growing virtual environment.

RackForce's new, simplified IT management lets it maintain an average of four customers to each physical server, rather than the tradition one-to-one ratio. This lightens the company's operating costs enormously, and it also maximizes existing IT infrastructure as it grows.

Designed to help administrators configure and deploy new virtual machines and to centrally manage their virtualized infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMware ESX Server, Microsoft officially released its first public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in April. It was generally released in October.