Vkernel

1. Incorporating Chargeback In Private Cloud
Lai Yoong Seng (MVP Virtual Machine)
www.ms4u.info | laiys@redynamics.com
Redynamics Asia System Management

2. Session Objective and Key Takeaway
• Session objectives
– Product Overview : Vkernel
• Key Takeaway
– Chargeback product for Private Cloud

3. VKernel Overview
• Quest Product
– Performance analysis, Capacity planning
– Optimization, Reporting, Chargeback
• 800+ customers, 50,000+ users worldwide
• Microsoft System Center Alliance partner since 2009
• Full Integrated 64 bit Virtual Appliance New
Version 4.7
• Main competitor = VMware
• “Best of Show” at VMworld 2010

4. Where VKernel fits in System Center Solution
• Extend VMM with capacity monitoring, planning, and
cost management
• Alerts fed into SCOM
VKernel
Confidential VKernel Confidential

5. Integration Points
Active Directory
Vmware VCenter Vkernel API Access

6. VKernel’s vOperations Suite (vOPS)
• Reporting and Chargeback
– Business level grouping and views of environment
– Environment documentation and reporting
– Infrastructure and VM cost visibility and accounting
• Performance Analyzer
– Root cause with actionable recommendations / remediation
– Assess impact of VM performance problems on environment
– Monitor environments for capacity bottlenecks
• Capacity Manager
– VM placement (size and throughput)
– Determine future bottlenecks
– Predictive resource planning
– Capacity reservations
• Optimizer
– Identify and reclaim wasted resources (automatically)
– Optimize resource allocation by VM (CPU, Memory, Storage)

7. VKernel’s
Performance Monitoring Product

8. Performance Monitoring
• Real Time Monitoring
• Monitoring the VM
– Extend further to guest OS, non- virtualize
server, server hardware, etc (Enterprise)
• Correlate system events to VM
Performance

9. Real Time Alert –Root Cause

10. Impact Analysis

11. Current Bottleneck-Summary

12. CPU

13. Memory

14. Analysis-Why?

15. Storage

16. Throughput

17. Analysis- Throughput

18. Latency

20. VKernel’s
Capacity Management Product

21. Capacity Planning Requirement
• Predict Resource Exhaustion
• Identify Available Slots for Safe VM
Deployment
• Forecast future hardware needs and time
frames

26. VKernel’s
Resource Optimization Product

27. Optimization Requirements
• Size VM Resource Allocations Correctly
• Identify and Remove Data Waste Files and
Idle VM

28. Rightsizer-Summary

29. CPU

30. Memory

31. Storage

32. Wastefinder- Abandoned VM

33. VKernel’s
Reporting Product

34. Reporting
• Customize Dashboard
• Querying
• Customize Service Level Reporting
(Enterprise)

35. Dashboard

38. Reporting

39. Sample Report-Storage

40. Sample Report- VM Count

41. Sample Report-Memory

42. Sample Report-Utilization

43. Inventory

44. VM Detail View

45. VKernel’s
Chargeback Product

46. Chargeback Requirement
• Calculate Total Billing/Show back amount
• Distribute or Export Chargeback Amount
• Determine the Operational for Individual
VM

47. VKernel Chargeback
• Allocated and actual (utilized) costs
• Intelligent business views to group VMs into applications,
services, etc. – each with it’s own cost model
• Custom fields for allocation of additional costs (power, space,
cooling, support, etc.)
• Automated, scheduled reporting (email, PDF, CSV formats)
• Rest-based API and integration with VMM Self-Service Portal

48. VKernel vOperations Suite

49. VKernel vOperations Suite

50. VKernel vOperations Suite

51. VKernel vOperations Suite

52. VKernel vOperations Suite

53. Chargeback

55. Let Get Starting….
•VKernel delivered as virtual appliance
• Download VHD file: www.vkernel.com
• Import using VM Wizard
• Configure network
• Install SCOM collector
•Supports both Hyper-V, Vmware and Red Hat from single appliance
•Minimum Requirements
• 4 vCPU
• 8GB of memory
• 64 GB of storage space
•Microsoft Software Requirements
• Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (or later)
• Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (or later)

56. Q&A
Questions & Answers
Virtual Lai
www.ms4u.info laiys@redynamics.com