VM Reports and Performance Analysis
Hyper-V and VMware reporting is required for virtualization administrators, application owners, management and customers. Summary views of costs, deployed resources, available capacity, and configuration information is critical for budgets, compliance, and operational efficiency.
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Virtualized Environments Offer Little Visibility
While it is relatively easy to deploy virtual machines, gaining insights into a virtualized environment can be difficult and time consuming. Virtualization administrators often find themselves at a loss when management asks for information such as:
- How many VMs do we have?
- What is the consolidation ratio for our virtualized servers?
- When were VMs deployed and by whom?
- What resources were allocated to VMs?
- Which VMs have not been patched?
Effective VM Reporting Requires Thorough Data Aggregation and Querying
Although VM data may be available in Microsoft Systems Center or VMware vCenter, finding, sorting, analyzing, and reporting on VM information can be challenging. Additionally, any proposed resource allocation adjustment to a virtual machine may require VM reporting to investigate ownership and deployment details prior to making the change. To streamline VM management, VM reporting and inventory information must be integrated into virtualization management operations. A system that aggregates all of the data related to all VMs in an environment and then allows for customized querying is necessary for effective VM reporting for VMs in an environment.
Report Automation Requires Data Integration, Distribution Flexibility and Security
As virtualized environments grow, so too does the amount of data that must be analyzed for reporting. Automating the reporting process is the only way to efficiently provide visibility into an environment while scaling effectively. However, many stakeholders, such as customers and management should not have access into the virtualization management software but must still see certain reports. These users must have access to the virtualized environment's data restricted by system permissions, and must be able to view reports within web portals, dashboards, or management systems that they commonly use. Additionally, organizations may already have a centralized reporting framework in place. An environment's performance and capacity management data must be accessible programmatically for integration into such systems.
VKernel Reporting and Chargeback Provides Virtualized Environment Insights with Robust Distribution Capabilities
vOPS Reporting & Chargeback, part of the VKernel vOperations Suite, helps busy virtualization administrators with data center management by providing access-controlled information to the right stakeholders into the management systems they use to support operational changes and decision making.
Installed as a virtual appliance, VKernel Chargeback & Reporting provides value within 20 minutes from download by:
- Visually displaying performance, capacity and cost health for all VMs in an environment on a single screen
- Collecting information for each VM from one or multiple System Center or vCenter servers
- Aggregating and analyzing data into advanced customer reports, which can be assembled into customized dashboards
- Allowing for API integration of performance and capacity management information to external systems such as reporting frameworks
- Providing access-secured, web-based integration to embed reports into web portals or management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint
- Organizing VM data into “Excel like” tables that can be easily searched on, filtered or sorted by more than 50 attributes
- Reporting all data in CSV, XML or PDF format which can be emailed, sent via SMNP, or downloaded ad hoc
- Tagging specific data to one or more VMs
- Supporting automatic VM report generation for point in time snapshots of virtual machine configurations
With vOPS Reporting & Chargeback, virtualization administrators spend less time putting assembling and distributing reports and searching for relevant VM information. Instead, this time is used for making impactful decisions that drive business value. VKernel Reporting & Chargeback is simple to download, easy to deploy and provides immediate measurable value.
