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Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

By scottlowemcse May 4, 2010, 5:03 PM PDT

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Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

vKernel Capacity Analyzer Overview page

vKernel Capacity Analyzer Overview page

Capacity Analyzer takes vKernel’s monitoring software to the next level by providing detailed analytics for every aspect of your virtual environment. At a list price of $299 per socket, Capacity Analyzer can easily pay for itself through cost avoidance. That is, when used right, Capacity Analyzer will help you to optimize existing resources and help you to avoid the need to purchase additional hardware to meet growing infrastructure needs. vKernel offers a 14 day trial version of Capacity Analyzer.

This is the Capacity Analyzer main Overview page, which provides an at-a-glance look at current infrastructure bottlenecks along with the constraining resource.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

Current resource bottlenecks

Current resource bottlenecks

On this Current Bottlenecks page, note that a number of resources are outlined, including CPU usage, RAM utilization, and storage, as well as storage I/O.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

Historical view of resources

Historical view of resources

Capacity Analyzer provides you with a historical view of resources, including the RAM history you see in this figure.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

Remediation recommendation

Remediation recommendation

Here’s what vKernel has to say about the RAM condition in the previous figure.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

Where are you experiencing storage capacity issues?

Where are you experiencing storage capacity issues?

A list of where each individual disk for each virtual machine currently stands with regard to utilization.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

How many more virtual machines can be added to this environment?

How many more virtual machines can be added to this environment?

You see that we can add three more hosts to our server cluster with the constraining resource being memory.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

Future bottlenecks

Future bottlenecks

The virtual machine named Angel_Vm has RAM and disk capacity alerts. In the Future Bottlenecks section, you see a list of resources related to Angel_Vm that are predicted to face bottlenecks and at what point it’s expected that the resources will face these bottlenecks.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

Save money by using vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer

An alternative look at the future

An alternative look at the future

This figure shows the RAM-based bottleneck that is expected to be suffered by the cluster in 23 days as a result of RAM growth on a number of virtual machines eventually outstripping the host’s resources.

For more details, read my Servers and Storage blog post entitled Optimize resource usage with vKernel’s Capacity Analyzer.

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