VKernel - Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for ESX Servers

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Workshops

How to Optimize Resource Utilization and Increase VM Densities on Your Existing Hardware
Learn how you can optimize resource utilization in your VMware environment to safely increase VM densities, ensure performance standards, and lower your cost per VM — all on your existing hardware to save significant costs
How to Identify Capacity Bottlenecks Workshop
Learn best practices and effective strategies to help resolve capacity bottlenecks in VMware ESX environments in a half-hour educational workshop
How to implement a Cost Visibility and Chargeback Process
This workshop walks through an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach for implementing a cost visibility and chargeback process

Whitepapers

How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment
A VMware system administrator´s guide to identifying capacity bottlenecks, predicting future capacity bottlenecks, and removing them
How to Implement Chargeback in a Virtualized Datacenter Using the Resource Consumption Model
A step-by-step guide to calculating chargeback rates for memory, CPU, and storage
Virtual Machines Are Not Free
With increased IT efficiencies, the ease of adding new virtual machines, and the fact that departments no longer need to purchase their own physical servers, there is a perception outside of IT that virtualization does not cost anything and adding new virtual machines is free. But, adding a new virtual machine is not free, learn how IT can convey that to the business units it serves.

Case Studies

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company
Using the VKernel Capacity Analyzer and Chargeback virtual appliances, HE&R is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, network, and storage; set proactive alerts; and learn exactly who is using what resources and how much it costs.

ABNB Federal Credit Union
With VKernel’s Capacity Analyzer, ABNB gained immediate visibility into its resource utilization and reduced CPU and memory consumption from 60-70 percent down to 10-20 percent.

County of Sacramento, Calif.
VKernel Capacity Analyzer is helping the County of Sacramento continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly plan its environment and allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.

HOVENSA
Simple and easy to use, Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer continually monitors HOVENSA’s shared resources and delivers critical trending data. In a single dashboard view, HOVENSA is able to sees exactly what is going on in its VMware environment.

Hasbro
Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.

ScripNet
Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, ScripNet is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.

Safelite AutoGlass
The VKernel Chargeback virtual appliance empowers the technical staff with usage data that is useful in resource management, capacity planning, and other analysis for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 implementation.

Berry College
The VKernel Chargeback Virtual Appliance allows IT to provide its end-user departments with instant reports about resource consumption and how much it costs.