VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy virtual appliances for managing virtual server environments, today announced Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel, will be presenting a session titled “How to Find and Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks in Virtual Server Environments” at the 2008 Virtualization Conference and Expo on Wednesday, Nov. 19^th at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. 

“While organizations continue to rapidly virtualize their data centers, there is very little movement to virtualize business-critical applications,” said Bakman. “IT needs visibility into how much resource capacity they have and are using in order to reduce risks and provide a level of confidence necessary for virtualizing important applications. The goal of this workshop is to walk attendees through a step-by-step approach for continually monitoring the infrastructure and proactively preventing capacity issues to ensure performance and service levels are always met.”

In a virtual infrastructure where resources, CPU, memory, storage, and network, are shared between virtual machines, ensuring optimal performance is a must. Resource consumption should be closely monitored, especially as more virtual machines (VMs) are continually added. Not analyzing how additional VMs will impact utilization could result in poor performance and even system downtime. Ultimately, this means unhappy users, dissatisfied managers, and a negative impact on the virtualization project. This session will discuss a formula for ensuring that organizations will not run into these problems. In fact, by closely and proactively monitoring resource availability, IT can create a very stable environment and prove to users that virtualization is ready for prime time.

Who: Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel

What: How to Find and Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks in Virtual Server Environments

When: Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 2:50 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. PST

Where: The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif.

The VKernel Virtual Appliance Suite for Systems Management is a set of innovative, “plug-and-play” virtual appliances designed to quickly address real world systems management challenges with advanced analytics as organizations migrate to virtual data center environments. VKernel products enable IT groups to immediately solve today’s critical pain points by providing visibility into the capacity and resource consumption of each virtual machine. VKernel Performance Lifecycle Management products include:

• Chargeback – provide cost visibility and implementing chargeback processes
• Capacity Analyzer – proactively monitor shared capacity resources to prevent current and future problems
• Modeler – quickly test and validate additions and changes to see the impact on the environment before going live
• SearchMyVM – free “Google-like” search utility to find information in virtual environments