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Save money by using vKernel's Capacity Analyzer

By // May 4, 2010, 5:35 PM PST

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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.

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