Microsoft offers free Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional add-in for rack server virtualization to help you save on space and power. Microsoft has created a new add-in for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional that helps you plan your virtualization environment. Because many of today’s physical servers are being under-utilized, people are turning to virtualization as an answer. To help get you down the right path, Microsoft has created a tool that can draw a clear picture of your hardware utilization. This tool auto-generates the diagram of your rack and provides clear server details from a linked Excel template. Analyze your racks and servers using WMI or get the utilization data over time by using Microsoft’s Operations Manager connection. After completing the analysis, the external data window adds the fetched IP address, operating system, processor, % CPU usage, total physical memory, and available physical memory details of the analyzed servers. You can use the virtualization button to see the before and after detailed diagram of your racks, and you can clearly see where you have the opportunity to save on space and power. “Microsoft Visio 2007 Add-In for Rack Server Virtualization (Virtual Rack) uses various new features of Visio 2007 to display the details of servers, racks and colors present in the Data Centre. This add-in enables consolidation of physical servers by allowing many virtual servers to run concurrently on one physical server results in improvement of system utilization, reduction in number of physical servers, lowering costs, increasing flexibility etc. The Visio 2007 Add-In provides users a virtualization picture in addition to the existing picture of the rack based on some parameters to compare the power consumption and space saving before and after consolidation.”You can download the free Visio add-in at Microsoft.com. Software Development