VKERNEL Chargeback 2.0 released
VKERNEL released Chargeback 2.0
What is Chargeback? Chargeback in this new release support to both Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and VMware ESX environments. With Chargeback you’re able the real costs of your applications running. You’re able 
to mesure the actual or allocated resource usage by application or business group.
“We believe that as virtual desktop and private cloud initiatives move forward, users will be migrating to mixed VMware and Microsoft virtualized environments,” said Bryan Semple, CMO of VKernel. “As the leading provider of capacity management solutions for virtualized environments we want to support this migration.
VKernel Chargeback 2.0 is unique in the industry for its heterogeneous support and mixed chargeback models.”
With Chargeback 2.0 you have the possibility to define the cost of CPU, Memory, Storage or network, and evaluate a cost for running your applications…
By creating a monthly report on those values you are gaining the visibility in term of overall costs of your Virtual infrastructure detailed application by application. You’re able to see that specific application had consumed for exaple $200 in term of CPU, Memory, Disk I/0 and it had such a cost for you (or your customer). You’re able to evaluate the cost of your applications running in your VI.
VKernel Chargeback 2.0 now supports both allocated and actual resource consumption models. By reporting on both measures, infrastructure teams can chargeback for actual resource consumption, allocated resources, or simply show application teams the difference in real dollars between their allocated capacity and actual usage. This cost visibility is critical to capacity management, reducing VM sprawl, and supporting private cloud initiatives.
Chargeback 2.0 is the second product from VKernel to support Microsoft Hyper-V Server, following the launch of VKernel Capacity Analyzer. A thirty-day trial of Chargeback 2.0 is available for immediate download from http://www.vkernel.com/download/chargeback
Chargeback providing some cool free tools too. I already reported on a free tool called Storage View for monitoring the host/datastore latency in one of my earlier posts here.
VKERNEL provides 2 other free tools. Those are App View and Capacity View.
VKERNEL becomes one of my favorite application providers when it comes to analyzing and managing Virtual infrastructure running VMware vSphere. By providing 30 days period for trying before you buy you got time to test those products and see the benefits. The infrastructures having more and more VMs with more and more applications present, the visibility what’s happening is becoming a necessity.
Source: vKernel
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