Chargeback

What the Virtualization Blogs Say

• ESX Virtualization: "VKERNEL becomes one of my favorite application providers when it comes to analyzing and managing Virtual infrastructure running VMware vSphere."
• JFVI.co.uk on the Chargeback 2.0 Release

"Chargeback has greatly increased our visibility to manage our virtual machine usage and growth. We are now well informed to guide our future growth with solid data from past usage.” 

— Rick Vanover
System Administrator
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VMs Are Not Free

VM admins many times have to fight internal perceptions that VMs are free. Groups outside the systems administration team forget that VMs consume an allocation of CPU, memory and storage.  VMs require an operating system license and potentially an additional application software license.  Each VM must be patched and kept current to enterprise standards.

VMs are clearly not free, yet easily showing business units and application owners the cost of their VMs is not a trivial task without significant manual accounting using spreadsheets and exports of data from vCenter or Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager.

VKernel Chargeback Provides Easy to Implement Chargeback Reporting

VKernel Chargeback is a powerful, easy to use and affordable product that enables IT managers to accurately map VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization costs to applications and users. VKernel Chargeback enables VM admins to generate basic financial reporting than can be used in chargeback, show-back or budgeting discussions with IT or financial management teams. 

Installed as a virtual appliance, Chargeback provides value within 20 minutes from download including:

• Allocated or actual cost calculations
• Customizable memory, storage and CPU costs at the application level
• Custom group creation to group VMs with applications and business units
• Custom chargeback fields for daily allocation of additional costs like data center space
• Automated reporting that can be emailed out in PDF or XML format