VKernel Ships Capacity Analyzer 2.0 Performance Assurance Solution

By VSM News Staff
published: Tuesday, October 14 2008

Quick-to-deploy, cost-effective performance assurance tool for VMware ESX server environments delivers new features and functionality, including Disk I/O statistics.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., October 14, 2008 - VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy performance assurance solutions for virtual server environments, announced today the company is now shipping its Capacity Analyzer 2.0 virtual appliance - available for download at http://www.vkernel.com.  New features and functionality include important Disk I/O statistics, a more intuitive user interface, and enhanced scalability to ensure the optimal performance of the most demanding VMware ESX environments. 

Designed to save IT staffs significant time and money, Capacity Analyzer continuously and proactively monitors shared CPU, memory, and storage resource utilization trends in VMware ESX environments across hosts, clusters, and resource pools.  By quickly identifying current and future performance-impacting capacity bottlenecks, Capacity Analyzer provides the critical resource utilization data to properly plan and grow the virtual server infrastructure, ensures optimal service level agreements (SLAs), and lowers the cost per virtual machine to realize a faster return on investment (ROI).

"For virtualization projects to move forward to the size and scope organizations ultimately desire, performance issues must continually be solved to provide a level of confidence that allows business critical application servers to be virtualized," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel.  "Our Capacity Analyzer delivers a detailed level of insight into the current and future performance of VMware environments to eliminate serious risks and optimize the end-user experience." 

Capacity Analyzer Functionality

VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology provides users with a unique single-screen dashboard view of their complete VMware environment and dynamically updates as additions and changes are made.  From the Capacity Analyzer dashboard, users have the advanced analytics to monitor and manage shared resource capacity, allocation, and utilization.

• Current Capacity Bottlenecks - Identifies the top five hosts, clusters or resource pools that have bottlenecks ordered by highest severity.

• Future Capacity Bottlenecks - Identifies when critical bottleneck issues will develop so users can take the necessary proactive and preventive measures to eliminate performance issues.

• Capacity Availability Map - Identifies how many more virtual machines can run on a particular object before hitting critical capacity threshold levels to help users properly plan for future performance requirements.

• Datastore Statistics - Displays total and free space for each datastore to maximize shared storage resources.

• Top Resource Consumers - Presents the top resource consumers in an organization's VMware environment - showing who's overusing what resources.

Pricing and Availability

The VKernel Capacity Analyzer virtual appliance is currently available with pricing starting at $199 per CPU socket for the standard edition.  A free, full production 14-day trial version of this VKernel virtual appliance is available on http://www.vkernel.com.  For additional questions and information, contact VKernel by phone at 1.866.370.2733 (603-590-1030) or email sales@vkernel.com.

About VKernel Corporation

Based in Portsmouth, NH, VKernel is dedicated to developing best-of-breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs, and simplify management of heterogeneous virtual environments of all sizes.  As a member of VMware's Technology Alliance Program, VKernel offers the industry's only VMware certified Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing capacity, chargeback, and cost visibility.  In February 2008, VKernel received an initial funding round of $4.6 million from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.  For more information, visit http://www.vkernel.com.