News | December 17, 2008

VKernel Ships Capacity Analyzer 3.0 Predictive Monitoring For VMware ESX Performance And Capacity Bottlenecks

VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy management tools for dynamic data centers, announced recently the availability of its Capacity Analyzer 3.0 predictive capacity monitoring and analysis solution for VMware ESX environments. Now available for download at http://www.vkernel.com, Capacity Analyzer 3.0 includes a new simplified tabular-based user-interface (UI), visibility into performance and capacity at the virtual machine (VM) level, and expanded data storage statistics and information.

"The true market differentiator of Capacity Analyzer is its predictive analytic capabilities. When organizations quickly see exactly where they will run out of a particular resource and in how many days, they immediately comprehend how our software can help them proactively manage their VMware environment," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "With Capacity Analyzer 3.0, we are further enhancing our affordable solution to make it even easier for IT staffs to get the most out of their existing VMware investments, prevent problems, continually ensure performance, and lower their cost per VMs."

VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology enables IT administrators to achieve maximum performance with the right amount of resources. Capacity Analyzer is the only VMware ESX monitoring solution that predicts problems days before they occur so issues can be fixed prior to performance degradations. The new features in Capacity Analyzer 3.0 further simplify how administrators use the product and delivers even more critical resource utilization and capacity information.

  • Identifies VM level bottlenecks – In addition to identifying current and future bottleneck issues in hosts, clusters, and resource pools, Capacity Analyzer 3.0 includes VM level bottleneck information. With hundreds to thousands of deployed VMs, organizations' IT staffs can save precious time with Capacity Analyzer's ability to monitor and identify VM bottlenecks
  • New simplified UI – Tabular-based UI simplifies navigation and helps users quickly find critical information
  • More data storage statistics – Expanded storage statistics identify unit name and logical unit number (LUN) and includes all virtual objects using a specific storage resource

"Today, many organizations are flying blind when it comes to managing the resource capacity in their virtual infrastructure. Too many are just hoping they won't run into a problem," said Rich Ptak, managing director, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC. "VKernel's Capacity Analyzer provides visibility not just into current capacity issues and bottlenecks, but also helps to predict future problems. This capability optimizes virtual data center operations while also allowing IT to meet their service level agreements."

Designed for enterprise scalability, Capacity Analyzer proactively and continuously monitors shared CPU, memory, network, and disk (storage and disk I/O) utilization trends in VMware ESX environments across VMs, hosts, clusters, and resource pools enabling users to:

  • Predict and avoid costly performance degradations and downtime by properly allocating resources
  • Get more out of existing VMware infrastructure, so unnecessary hardware and software purchases can be delayed
  • Safely increase virtual machine (VM) densities to lower the cost per VM
  • Find available capacity to safely add new VMs
  • Identify the top resource consumers
  • Set alerts to take the necessary proactive measures to avoid problems altogether

About VKernel Corporation
Based in Portsmouth, NH, VKernel is dedicated to developing best-of-breed management tools for dynamic data centers that enhance performance, optimize utilization, and lower costs. As a member of VMware's Technology Alliance Program, VKernel offers the industry's only VMware certified Suite of Virtual Appliances for proactively monitoring capacity, predicting problems, chargeback, and cost visibility. In February 2008, VKernel received an initial funding round of $4.6M from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.vkernel.com.

SOURCE: VKernel Corporation