VM Management Analytics
Analytics for Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Reporting, & Optimization of Virtual Environments
Virtualization management requires more than simple monitoring– it requires analytics. To perform Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere performance management, capacity planning, optimization and chargeback correctly, VM administrators need to monitor over 20 metrics per virtual machine on at least a five minute interval.
With just 100 virtual machines, that means 17 million data points would need to be monitored and analyzed over a 30 day period to correctly monitor VM performance and capacity.
More importantly, VM administrators must translate all that data into actionable information:
- What is happening?
- What is causing a change?
- What must be done to resolve a noted issue?
As environments scale past proof of concept environments, analyzing the data to adequately manage capacity in a virtualized environment moves beyond the capabilities of Microsoft Excel and requires higher order analysis.
VKernel's Capacity Analytics Engine Transforms Data into Actionable Information
VKernel's Capacity Analytics EngineTM is designed to take raw VM performance data on a near real time basis and provide actionable results for busy system administrators. The Capacity Analytics Engine:
- Models the underlying hardware infrastructure and the relationships between shared pools of resources
- Models the virtual machines that are consuming resources
- Examines in detail the past 30 days to determine key future trends
- Takes into account VM mobility and resource consumption
- Notes abnormal VM metric readings and significant trending changes
The end result of this analysis is specific and actionable information which enables:
- Performance Management - Identifying where current and future capacity constraints in memory, cpu, storage I/O and storage are causing Hyper-V, Red Hat Enteprise Virtualization (RHEV) or VMware performance problems and analyzing vCenter and Systems Center alarms to identify issue root cause and remediation.
- Capacity
Planning – Identify where
there is space for new VMs, how much is left, and when it will run out.
- Environment Optimization - Determining how to correctly size resources allocated to each virtual machine to achieve maximum VM performance with the least amount of resource and eliminate resources wasted on unnecessary storage and VMs that no longer serve a useful purpose
- Hyper-V, RHEV and VMware Chargeback - Mapping resource consumption and cost allocation by applications and by departments
With over 50,000 users VKernel Capacity Analytics Engine has been battle-proven, calibrated and tuned to work in virtual environments of all size.
See the Capacity Analytics Engine in Action
- Download a free trial of the VKernel vOperations SuiteTM
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