Hyper-V Performance Case Studies
Virtualization Management with VKernel vOperations Suite™ Products:
Tieto: Rapid virtualized environment growth at Tieto, the leading IT services provider in northern Europe, began making visibility and reporting on the environment unmanageable. Using VKernel's vOPS Capacity Manager, Tieto was 
able to save days of recur-ring work on reporting and were able to significantly improve VM performance by automatically implementing VM sizing recommendations.
Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority: Lacking the tools they needed, WAPA decided to try the vOperations Suite™ from VKernel. The vOPS™ Capacity Manager application proved particularly useful in giving them both the comprehensive overview and the detailed insight he needed to understand the virtualized environment. “For the first time since beginning the server virtualization project, we could finally understand what was going on in the infrastructure,” says Julius Aubain, WAPA's Network Specialist.
Steria: The popularity of outsourcing has benefited Steria’s IT-enabled business services enterprise. But its growth was also presenting some challenges. Kenneth Larsen, Systems Consultant at Steria, explains: “Our virtualized environment was practically exploding with the addition of new customers and new services, and we were struggling to maintain service levels.” The lack of visibility into the virtualized environment forced Larsen and his staff to analyze trends and plan capacity manually. See how Steria harnessed VKernel's vOperations Suite™ virtualization management software to meet that demand.
The Netherlands Government: With vOPS™ Capacity Manager, a Netherland government agency gained immediate value, with insight on VM capacity and performance that VMware's vCenter management console could not provide. Capacity Manager also provided vision for future resource planning while vOPS™ Optimizer helped "right size" resources such as CPU memory use with specific recommendations. Finally, vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback will help address a policy requiring departments being billed based on their use of IT resources.
Thermo Fisher Scientific: vOPS™ Capacity Manager quickly found capacity bottlenecks in their large infrastructure while vOPS™ Optimizer allowed for “right-sizing” of VMs so that the data center could appropriately use resources. Then vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback drastically reduced time and overhead of managing the virtual infrastructure.
CyberShift: Using vOPS™ Capacity Manager and vOPS™ Optimizer, CyberShift is better monitoring, managing, and optimizing its VMware infrastructure with instant visibility, detailed information, and automated reporting. With VKernel products, CyberShift was able to right-size VMs and find enough additional resource capacity to delay a $30-40K purchase of additional hardware.
Capacity Planning with vOPS™ Capacity Manager:
Smead Manufacturing: VKernel vOperations Suite has provided Smead Manufacturing with visibility into available capacity in their Microsoft Hyper-V environment. This capability allows Smead's data center to fully utilize existing virtual infrastructure and gain insights into VM resources needed for capacity planning.
Installed Building Products: vOPS™ Capacity Manager is enabling IBP to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage; set proactive alerts; and continually access critical resource utilization data to practice better and more efficient capacity planning.
Hasbro: Using the vOPS™ Capacity Manager, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.
ABNB Federal Credit Union: With vOPS™ Capacity Manager, ABNB gained immediate visibility into its resource utilization and reduced CPU and memory consumption from 60-70 percent down to 10-20 percent.
VMware Capacity Management with vOPS™ Optimizer:
University of Nottingham: vOPS™ Optimizer quickly found over-allocated virtual machines and gave the University of Nottingham's data center the visibility to show application owners that their VMs could maintain high performance with fewer resources. Additionally, Optimizer continuously locates unused data files that can be reclaimed to deploy new VMs. Ultimately, these VM sizing and wastefinding actions make the VMware environment more efficient, helping the University of Nottingham meet its virtualization business goals.
VMware Chargeback with vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback:
Peer 1 Hosting: *NEW* As the number of VMs in their virtual environment grew, PEER 1 found it increasingly difficult to map costs accurately and assess capacity across the infrastructure. The team knew that they needed sophisticated analytical capabilities to manage the multi-data center environment more efficiently and effectively. VKernel's vOPS™ installed quickly and easily, providing the comprehensive visibility into the environment that PEER 1 required.
Safelite AutoGlass: The vOPS™ Reporting & Chargeback virtual appliance empowers the technical staff with usage data that is useful in resource management, capacity planning, and other analysis for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 implementation.
