vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback

"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
Safelite AutoGlass

What the Virtualization Blogs Say

• Peer 1 Hosting: Improve Your Visibility into the Cloud with VKernel
• vPivot: Simpler, Better Chargeback
• 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

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback, part of the VKernel vOperations Suite™, profiles VM usage and configuration for cost visibility and virtual environment reporting. vOPS Reporting & Chargeback is unique in its ability to embed management reports and dashboards into external systems such as web portals. Virtualization administrators are able to quickly gain visibility into their environment and its costs, and securely distribute this information to customers, management, and other stakeholders.

Key Features:

• Web-based report distribution with access-secured embedding into web portals and other systems
• Chargeback Reports that include both utilization and allocation cost
• Virtualization Cost Index (VCI) vScope stack ranks all VMs in order of expensiveness and reveals operational costs

Operational Benefits:

• Report across multiple data centers and instances of Systems Center, Red Had Enterprise Management (RHEM) and vCenter from a single application
• Automate reporting of trending and environment changes for management, customers or other stakeholders
• Meter resource usage for billing or showback purposes

Business Benefits:

• Cost index data allows administrators to change VM placement and configuration for bottom line improvements
• SLA-required reporting can be automatically and securely integrated into other systems
• Cost calculations for VMs per customer allow for IT billing
• Management-level reports provides insight for planning and budgeting

Integration Capabilities:

Integrate cost visibility and capacity management data into:

• Billing systems
• Customer access portals
• Systems management consoles
• Reporting frameworks

vOPS Reporting & Chargeback is simple to download, easy to deploy, and provides immediate measurable value.

Click here for details on use cases that vOPS Reporting & Chargeback addresses.