VKernel announced that it was ready to ship its Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer virtual appliance. The appliance is designed to help you with your VMware ESX environment by identifying current and future capacity bottleneck issues in order to help lower the cost of each virtual machine while working towards providing higher performance.

The company said their patent-pending technology will continuously monitor CPU, memory and storage utilization trends across VMware ESX hosts, clusters and resource pools. The virtual appliance makes use of a simple-to-use, single management dashboard and provides users with the ability to receive alerts via email or SNMP.

"When properly detecting capacity bottlenecks, organizations can increase performance and reduce downtime problems that lead to escalating business and IT costs and negative perceptions of virtualization within business units," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "The real challenge for IT staffs is finding a solution that helps them identify capacity bottlenecks without wasting countless man-hours sifting through hundreds of management reports. Within minutes, our Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer can show exactly where capacity bottlenecks are today and where problems are likely to occur to maximize virtual machine utilization."

The appliance is currently available with a starting price of $199 per CPU socket. You can also download a 14-day trial version of the appliance.

Posted by David Marshall on April 16, 2008 07:57 PM