capacity and chargeback virtual appliance for vmware esx october 23, 2007 alex bakman
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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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