VKernel Corporation, a provider of affordable, easy–to–use, and quick–to–deploy virtual server health management and optimization software, today announced its complete product suite fully supports the VMware vSphere 4 platform. VKernel products complement vSphere 4 and deliver advanced capabilities and functionality to enhance performance of the virtual data center and achieve a faster return on investment.

“Our market advantage is based on delivering best–in–breed products that are affordable, easy–to–use, and instantly solve critical end-user pain points,” said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. “We have achieved a lot of success to date by adding instant value to VMware ESX deployments. As a result, we are excited about supporting vSphere 4 because our end users continue to look to VKernel to help efficiently expand their virtual data centers without compromising performance.”

The VKernel suite of virtual server health and optimization tools solve a number of critical data center challenges impacting IT staffs today. Delivered as a VMA (Virtual Management Appliance), VKernel software instantly deploys and is simple to use to maintain the health of the data center and optimize resource allocations — reducing operational and capital costs and delivering a superior ROI. VKernel currently supports VMware ESX and vSphere, and plans to support Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XEN. The company’s current products include:

• Capacity Analyzer — proactively and predicatively monitor shared capacity resources to prevent current and future problems and optimize the environment
• Chargeback — provide instant cost visibility and implement a chargeback processes
• Modeler — quickly test and validate additions and changes to see the performance impact on the environment before going live
• SearchMyVM — free “Google–like” search utility quickly finds information in virtual environments
• CompareMyVM — a free community website tool allows visitors to exchange and compare virtual machine (VM) resource allocations with that of the community at large
• SnapshotMyVM — free tool that completely automates the time–consuming process of documenting the virtual data center