VKernel announced Capacity Analyzer 2.0 Beta availability at www.vkernel.com. New features and functionalities include important Disk I/O statistics, a more intuitive user interface, and enhanced scalability for the most demanding VMware ESX environments.

Currently named Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, VKernel will officially rename the product Capacity Analyzer when this latest version becomes generally available to better reflect its capabilities as a virtualization capacity management solution. In addition to identifying current and future bottleneck issues, Capacity Analyzer enables users to proactively and continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage utilization trends in VMware ESX environments across hosts, clusters, and resource pools. The product also provides users with critical resource utilization data to properly plan for growth, ensure optimal performance, and lower the costs per virtual machine.

"The response to the initial launch of Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer in April has been nothing less than extraordinary," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "We have learned a lot from our customers and numerous prospects about how they are using the product, which has allowed us to rapidly add more than 30 new features and enhancements they have requested."

Using Capacity Analyzer
VKernel's patent-pending technology provides users with a single-screen dashboard view of their complete VMware environment and dynamically updates as additions and changes are made. From the Capacity Analyzer dashboard, users have the advanced analytics to monitor and manage shared resource capacity, allocation, and utilization.

• Current Capacity Bottlenecks - Identifies the top five hosts, clusters or resource pools that have bottlenecks ordered by highest severity.
• Future Capacity Bottlenecks - Predicts in how many days a warning or critical bottleneck will develop.
• Capacity Availability Map - Identifies how many more virtual machines can run on a particular object before hitting critical threshold levels.
• Datastore Statistics - Shows total and free space for each datastore.
• Top Resources - Presents the top resource consumers in an organization's VMware environment.