IT Chargeback Resources
VKernel Blogs
FEATURED: The Bright Side of VM Sprawl
In part two of a two-part blog series on VM sprawl, VKernel's Chief Marketing Officer, Bryan Semple, discusses the benefits of virtualization as well as how showback provides visibility into virtual environments to help inform deployment decisions for optimal performance and high ROI.
VKernel University Videos
VMware Cost Killers - Sprawl, Overallocation, Wrong Hardware
Presentation from the Orange County VMUG - There are three main cost killers in virtualized environments: VM Sprawl, over allocation of resources to a VM, and inefficient scale up/scale out decisions. This presentation reviews these causes with practical examples, some quiz questions, and a roadmap on how to avoid the issues.
Podcasts
VM Chargeback at UNUM - Best Practice
Unum is a Fortune 500 company that provides long term and short term disability, group life and long term care insurance for more than 100,000 companies and 25 million people. Their IT department has also studied chargeback in great detail. This is a 20-minute podcast discussion describing how showback and chargeback were implemented at UNUM with VKernel CMO Bryan Semple and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Curtis Gunderson.
Virtualization Management Software
vOPS™ Server Standard
vOPS™ Server Enterprise (formerly vFoglight + VKernel vOperations Suite) is a tool that provides deep real-time monitoring for VMs, non-virtualized servers, guest OS and applications such as SQL Server.
White Papers
Setting Prices for Private Clouds
As more and more private clouds are deployed, organizations will face the requirement to implement chargeback or at least show back. Key to implementing chargeback is setting the chargeback rate. Much as pricing significantly impacts a public cloud provider, for the private cloud provider, the chargeback rate has significant implications.
Implementing Chargeback in a Virtualized Data Center
Most IT Professionals recognize the need for Chargeback, but are not sure how to implement a fair model. VKernel has come up with a simple to understand approach to doing Chargeback. Simply put: charge your customers for the resources (VM Memory, CPU Storage and Network) they actually use.
