VKernel explains How to Chargeback for Virtualization
July 19th, 2008 | 
Author: I posted a while back about VKernel’s Alex Bakman and his whitepaper on preventing performance bottlene
cks on your ESX hosts. This time I am posting about another topic inspired by Alex dealing with how to chargeback for virtualization. More and more companies are beginning to talk about chargeback in virtual data centers, but many struggle with coming up with a formula for actually implementing such a model. VKernel has a great solution for this and provides for download both a free Excel calculator and a complete virtual appliance. I provide a little more information on both of these Vkernel solutions in the rest of this post.
Free Chargeback Calculator
VKernel’s page titled Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for ESX Servers details the purpose of the calculator better than I ever could.
“Want to Chargeback? Don’t know Where to Begin?
You are not alone. 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 (CPU, Memory, Storage and Network) they actually use. Download the VKernel Chargeback Calculator and step-by-step Methodology white paper to calculate exactly how much you should charge for 1Ghz of CPU, 1 GB of RAM, 1 GB of Storage and for your network infrastructure.”
Download both the whitepaper and the calculator:
Download VKernel Methodology White Paper (pdf)
Download VKernel Chargeback Calculator (xls)
VKernel Chargeback Appliance
Once again, VKernel’s page about the appliance tells you what you need to know.
“The old chargeback model of users paying for physical server hardware simply no longer works. In the new virtual datacenter where all hardware is shared, IT organizations must charge back users for the resources they actually consume (CPU, memory, storage and network). VKernel´s Chargeback Virtual Appliance allows IT to provide its end user departments with instant reports about resource consumption and how much it costs.
- Meters resource usage by every department and automatically emails cost visibility and chargeback reports to end users.
- Comes with default chargeback rates and calculator for helping you determine your specific chargeback rates.
- Quick and easy implementation. Virtual appliances require no installation.
- Built for enterprise scalability utilizing Oracle and MS SQL backend.
- Completely open for integration through CSV, XML, PDF and SDK.”
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