vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback Features

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback enables chargeback and reports on virtualized environments with the following features:

• vOPS' Virtualization Cost Index (VCI) vScope stack ranks all VMs in an environment from most to least expensive, displaying this information visually in a heat map - Watch the video
• Advanced Customer Reports that display overview-level data abount an environment such as counts of performance issues, resource utilization and VM density - Watch the video
• Web-based distribution of advanced customer reports is available with custom URLs that allow for embedding into web portals and other management systems. - Watch the video
• Chargeback Reports that calculate allocated and actual compute resource usage costs - Watch the video
• VM Cost Overrides for chargeback allow virtualization administrators to set fixed costs for VMs - Watch the video
• Custom Chargeback Fields for regularly-occurring additional costs such as data center space rental, licenses, and power - Watch the video
• A VM Directory Report that displays VM data in Excel type tables that can be easily sorted, filtered, and searched on by more than 50 attributes - Watch the video
• Detailed VM Reports show all attributes related to a VM on one page - Watch the video
• Custom VM Report Creation ideal for point in time snapshots of virtual machine configurations 
• API access to Reporting & Chargeback data for external system integration and automation

vOPS Virtualization Cost Index (VCI) vScope

The Virtualization Cost Index (VCI) vScope calculates a relative index of virtual machine's operational costs for all VMs in an environment. The results from these calculations are then displayed visually. Using this heat map, VM administrators can identify relatively costly VMs that should not be as expensive, drill-down for more information and diagnose what needs to be done per VM to optimize the cost efficiency of an environment.

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Advanced Customer Reports

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback produces high-level reports on virtual environment operational data such as performance issue counts, resource usage and VM density. These reports are availanle on a customizable time frame and can be configured to show different areas of infrastructure pertaining to different data centers, hypervisors, business units, applications, or any other grouping.

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Web-Based Report Distribution

Virtualization administrators can easily distribute up-to-date Advanced Customer Reports or customizable dashboards from within vOPS by embedding into them into web portals or other management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint. This is accomplished through custom generation of URLs. Access to reports can be controlled with permissions-based security so that customers or other stakeholders see only the areas of the infrastructure that they are authorized for. Reports can also be distributed via email or SNMP in XML, CSV or PDF format.

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Chargeback Reports

Chargeback Reports will show the total cost for a customer based on both allocation and actual usage of CPU, memory, network, and storage resources. This report will show both a breakdown of these costs by VM, and a total cost for a time period. Chargeback reports can be run on regular intervals such as months or quarters, or for a custom time frame. Reports can be sent via email on an ad hoc or scheduled basis in XML, CSV and PDF format. 

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VM Cost Overrides for Chargeback

VM administrators are able to set lump-sum fixed costs for specific VMs, or different rates for CPU, memory, storage and network usage and hypervisor licensing costs at the Business View level. This price figure will override any calculated costs from resource usage or allocations if a VM is placed within the Business View that has been set up with an override. This configurability allows for a variety of charging scenarios to be flexibly implemented.

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Custom Chargeback Fields

Additional costs such as HVAC, hypervisor licensing fees, power or support can be added to a customer and will be added to the costs that are calculated within the Chargeback Reports. 

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VM Directory Report

The VM Directory shows all VMs in an environment, including those in multiple Microsoft Systems Center, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) or VMware vCenter instances, and lists all related deployment, configuration, and other information in a spreadsheet-like format. This data can then be filtered with multiple criteria based on conditions from any attribute. These reports can be emailed in PDF, CSV or XML format on an ad hoc or scheduled basis.

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Detailed VM Reports

Selecting any VM on a line item in the VM Directory will open up the Detailed VM Report for that virtual machine. This report puts all information relating to that VM such as Physical Disk info, Creation Info, and resource allocations on one screen that is printable and can be emailed in a PDF, CSV or XML format. 

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Custom VM Tagging

If VMs are identified or annotated with categories that go beyond the standard VM and host detail information within the hypervisor management system, they can be annotated with Custom VM Tagging. This feature provides customized fields to “tag” VMs with information unique to that environment. These “tagged” VMs can then be easily sorted or searched based on the tagged values and will be available for filtering in the VM Directory Report.

System Requirements

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback is packaged as an application within the VKernel vOperations Suite™. The VKernel vOperations Suite installs as a single agent-less virtual appliance in 20 minutes and a 30-day free trial for all applications within the suite is immediately available.

The following are required to install vOPS: