> Hello all,
>
> Background:
>
> At the company where I work at, we use VPC server intensively to simulate
> test and production environments of those customers that use our software.
>
> We have a number of program managers (~20) that need access to our VPC
> server on a daily basis to test the custom configurations that are
> required
> for each specific installations (~70 VPCs).
>
> Problem:
>
> Even thought we have two P4 16gb RAM 300 GB hard drives based servers, the
> problem we're having is that we are constantly running out of resources on
> those servers because everyone wants to use their VPCs and we're always
> facing a request for a new VPC, which adds more issues to what we already
> have. We have brainstormed on different ways that we can solve this issue
> from creating new policies that force PMs to request the use of a VPC and
> use
> within a timeframe (not accepted) to ways to automate via API or similar
> the
> monitoring of these VPCs (is this possible?).
>
> Question:
>
> Can you point me to any resources that have information on this type of
> scenario? Or do you have any ideas that we can use to effectively manage
> our
> servers and allow for effective expansion of these environments without
> having to invest on more new servers and extra hardware? Could we leverage
> IIS or something else to monitor VPC state so we can decide to shutdown
> VPCs
> as required?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gil Velasquez
>
>
>