Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for VMware ESX

October 23, 2007

Alex Bakman

VKernel

Founded in August 2006 Management Team with Winning Track Record Financial Resources and Market Commitment Depth of Engineering Resource The only certified Virtual Appliance by VMware

We're VKernel—offering the industry's first Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for VMware ESX.

Today’s Objective What’s different in the Virtualized Data Center

Understand Fidelity’s Requirements

VKernel Solution Overview and Demo

Share or methodology for Chargeback

Show how to calculate Chargeback rates for CPU, Memory, Storage and Network

Wrap up

The Virtual Infrastructure Chargeback Problem

• Shared Environment/ Servers• Servers Owned by IT• Capacity Management Now Critical Issue • Chargeback in a shared environment needs to be consumption based i.e. departments pay for the resources they actually use

After Virtualization

• Dedicated Application Servers• Owned by Business Units•Capacity Management is a smaller issue• Chargeback a “Fixed Cost”

Before Virtualization

How will you pay for and manage all this new Virtual Infrastructure?

Virtual Sprawl Isn’t Free

• Need to control VM Sprawl• Manage Capacity & Scale • Recover Costs• Justify New Hardware

And as the Virtual Infrastructure matures the problem becomes even more pronounced…

Operational Readiness in Your Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure

Standardization

Expansion

Rollout

POC

Hitting the Operational Readiness Wall#1 Hurdle- ChargebackCost

Allocation

Resource Utilization Awareness

Full Chargeback

Capacity Management

Why VKernel is needed? To prevent performance problems

To prevent downtime

To appropriately allocate costs of the new data centers to business users

To justify new hardware purchases

To control VM sprawl

Requirements for Capacity and Chargeback Management

• Measure resource consumption by applications, business units, cost centers, resource pools, and clusters. • Never run out of resources: predictive analysis • Eliminate datacenter downtime. • Quick deployment. • Tight integration with Virtual Center• Top-down reporting beyond Virtual Center’s capabilities.• Alerting on trends• Scalable database: Oracle or MS SQL• Scheduled Chargeback reports • Near zero administration time.

VKernel Features and Benefits No installation or configuration needed: delivered as VMware Virtual

appliance. Simply import it to your ESX server

Near Zero Administration. Automatically updates from Clusters, Resource Pools and Folders

Graphs CPU, Memory, Storage and Network utilization by cost center, business unit, application, cluster, resource pool, etc

Generates chargeback reports based on actual usage of resources (memory, CPU, storage, net)

Extensible data fields for Chargeback

Integration: CSV export and Web Services API

Chargeback extensible with company specific fields

How VKernel Works…

VKernel auto synchronizes with updates to clusters, resource pools and folders

and is Vmotion, DRC and HA aware.

VKernel meters CPU, memory, storage and network utilization in your ESX environment. The appliance stores information in a database and generates capacity graphs and chargeback

reports. VKernel snaps directly into your existing Virtual Center providing near zero administration effort.

Virtual Center VKernel Virtual Appliance

Generate resource consumption reports on the core four - memory, CPU,

storage and network.

Enterprise Chargeback Made Easy

Easily bill customers based on actual usage of CPU, memory, storage and network utilization.

• Automated invoice generation, set it up once and walk away.

• Add any chargeback items that you want to recover with custom fields such as license fees, cooling costs, labor, etc.

Operationally Ready to Scale Your Virtual Infrastructure

in Minutes

The Brain Cramp

How to calculate what to charge for CPU, Memory, Storage and Network?

What the marketplace & analysts say…

“While other software vendors target VM resource tracking, at press time VKernel had the virtual appliance market to itself.”

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