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VKernel, a division of Quest Software, is the number one provider of virtualization management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. The company’s powerful, easy-to-use products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and bottlenecks. VKernel helps organizations maximize capacity utilization, reduce virtualization costs and improve application performance.

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VM Performance Optimization: Ten Ways to Drive Efficiency in Virtualized Environments

When your virtualized environments run like clockwork, you, as a virtualization administrator, have the potential to reduce operations costs, speed d...

Posted on 4/24/2013 10:17:00 AM

Hyper-V Happiness and Cluster Aware Updating with Didier Van Hoye

During #VIRTuAlley a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking with Didier Van Hoye of Working Hard in IT about the new cluster aware update...

Posted on 2/26/2013 4:37:00 AM

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VM Performance Optimization: Ten Ways to Drive Efficiency in Virtualized Environments
When your virtualized environments run like clockwork, you, as a virtualization administrator, have the potential to reduce operations costs, speed deployments and simplify complexity of data center infrastructure – not to mention improve availability and performance of the infrastructure. Join us for a live webcast detailing how you can achieve these goals by optimizing virtual data center resources to deliver on the service level agreements (SLAs) you have committed to the business.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:17:00 AM

Hyper-V Happiness and Cluster Aware Updating with Didier Van Hoye
During #VIRTuAlley a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking with Didier Van Hoye of Working Hard in IT about the new cluster aware update process in Microsoft Windows Server2012. I have to admit, I am not expert on Hyper-V and especially cluster aware updating. So for all you Hyper-V fans out there, check out Didier's presentation here. Based on the questions he was being asked from the audience, there was a lot of interest in the topic.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:37:00 AM

Read "Top 20 Hyper-V Performance Metrics You Should Care About"
With hundreds of objects available in Hyper-V's Performance Monitor, it is very difficult to monitor them all or select the most important objects to track. This guide by David Davis provides insight into the top Hyper-V performance metrics to monitor in order to maintain your Hyper-V virtual infrastructure performance.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:16:00 AM

Whitepaper "Guessing is Not a Strategy: The Science of Capacity Management"
Product Evangelist, Jonathan Klick, discusses the process and pitfalls of satisfying performance requirements in a cost-effective manner. By following the capacity management guidelines outlined in this paper, VM administrators should easily be able to achieve the modest 20% improvement, and with the right tools and techniques, might be able to realize a 50% improvement or more—all while maintaining satisfactory levels of performance and honoring all service level agreements. Replacing the guessing all begins with a lesson in Capacity Management 101.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:58:00 AM

Download Free eBook: Best of 2012, Top Virtualization Management Articles
2012 was a big year for virtualization, with numerous articles published on performance, capacity sizing and storage to help you strengthen your virtualization management arsenal. To help you meet all of your virtualization management goals for 2013, we've compiled our most popular articles into a Free eBook: Best of 2012, Top Dell Software Virtualization Management Articles.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:42:00 AM

Dell VKernel vOps Server Explorer 6.3 released – Two More Free tools integrated
vKernel (Dell) has announced new update to popular vOps Server Explorer – a free tool for virtualization admins running vSphere, RHEV or Hyper-V. This new release brings in two additional tools to existing free tools present in this free software bundle. The detailed article about the previous release – version 6 can be found here. I detailed there the free tools already present in vOps Server Explorer. Three of them:
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:34:00 PM

VIRTu Alley Online Symposium: Your pathway to keeping up with the ever-growing virtualization industry
As all of you know, virtualization management is not a destination, but a journey. To help guide you through this journey, Dell Software is hosting VIRTu Alley, a two-day online symposium, where industry experts and thought leaders will share the latest and greatest tips, tricks, trends and best practices in virtualization and cloud management.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013 8:38:00 PM

VKernel’s vOPS Server Explorer Named Top Free VMware vSphere Tool of 2012
VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today that vOPS™ Server Explorer had been named one of Search VMware’s Top Five Free VMware vSphere Tools of 2012. This list was compiled by David Davis, a VMware certified vExpert who is considered an authority on free tools for VMware environments, and has published various listings of all free tools available on the market. Tailored to system administrators managing a virtual environment, vOPS Server Explorer provides three utilities that offer visibility into a virtual environment and detect performance issues in virtualized hosts, VMs and datastores.
Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:49:00 AM

VKernel to Present During Red Hat Virtual Event
VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today its participation in Red Hat’s Optimizing IT virtual event, scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 beginning at 11a.m. ET. Attendees of the virtual event will be presented with content crossing Red Hat’s product portfolio and will be invited to join a presentation delivered by Alex Rosemblat, Product Marketing Manager at Dell, that discusses how virtual admins can get a rapid assessment of the state of their Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments with Dell’s vOPS.
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:12:00 PM

VKernel Announces Weekly vD.I.B.s Webinar Series
VKernel , now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today its new “vD.I.B.s: Do It Better” virtualization management webinar series. Tailored for virtual administrators that use the company’s vOPS and vFoglight products, vD.I.B.s is a weekly 30 minute session hosted by Dell Software Virtualization Evangelists that focuses on the features and capabilities of vFoglight and vOPS. Attendees will learn practical ways to get the most out of their virtual environments.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:21:00 PM

Dell Software Chief: Why Hardware is No Longer Enough
Dell launched its software group at the beginning of 2012, and since then the company has been defining a strategy for the group and populating it through acquisitions – the biggest and most recent of which was Quest.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:22:00 AM

READ! New VKernel White Paper Tackles Resource Oversubscription Practices
Virtualization allows great flexibility and the ability to maximize resource utilization on a host server through overprovisioning and oversubscription. Through the various methods and real world possibilities covered in this white paper by Scott D. Lowe, administrators have the best practices needed to leverage oversubscription of CPU, memory and storage to maximize utilization while maintaining performance in their virtual environments.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:22:00 PM

VKernel Supports Growing Microsoft Hyper-V User Base With New Free Tool
VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class capacity management and performance monitoring products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today the availability of VKernel’s highly regarded free tool, vOPS Server Explorer, as a Hyper-V virtual appliance. vOPS Server Explorer assesses virtual machine performance, efficiency and capacity in a easy to download, simple to install virtual appliance.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012 4:55:00 PM

Read "The Most Important VMware & Hyper-V Metrics You Should Care About" Whitepaper
This free white paper lists the top 20 Metrics to monitor in VMware and Hyper-V, as identified by vExpert David Davis and Virtualization Evangelist Jonathan Klick.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:45:00 AM

Watch "vDIBs: Finding and Diagnosing Performance Issues in VKernel vOPS" On-Demand Webinar
In this Dell VKernel on-demand webinar, VKernel Product Evangelist Jonathan Klick walks users through ways to avoid and deal with performance issues within vOPS in this installment of vDIBs - Do It Better.
Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:54:00 PM

Check out "vOPs Server Enterprise Datasheet (formerly vFoglight and VKernel vOperations Suite)"
vOPS Server Enterprise (formerly vFoglight and VKernel vOperations Suite) extends the monitoring, planning, configuration management and chargeback capabilities in vOPS Server Standard with a highly configurable solution that can scale to tens of thousands of VMs.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:56:00 AM

Reduce Storage Consumption By Rightsizing Memory Allocations
Sizing memory allocations on virtual machines has varying levels of importance to each of us. For some, memory capacity is running out and they need to milk it until some future point in time. For others, memory is cheap and easy to procure. However, we can sometimes forget that memory allocations affect our storage capacity as well.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:45:00 PM

Read "VM Memory (vRAM) Sizing Considerations" Whitepaper
VKernel has written a VM memory sizing white paper with noted vExpert David Davis and VKernel Sr. Systems Engineer Brad Bonn for virtualization administrators to gain a deeper understanding of VMware's memory over-commitment capabilities and which VMware system metrics to analyze to make VM memory sizing less painful.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:38:00 AM

Watch "The Top 20 vCenter Metrics You Should Care About" Webinar
Twenty metrics don't sound too overwhelming. But take 20 metrics from 100 VMs, over a 30-day period, and you have nearly 17 million data points that need to be analyzed. VKernel's vOperations Suite is designed to do the heavy lifting for you. Check out this vKernel on-demand webinar "The Top 20 vCenter Metrics You Should Care About"
Friday, October 19, 2012 5:04:00 AM

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	VKernel: 20 Key VMware Metric & Capacity Management Suite Podcast with Alex Rosemblat & Ken Latimer - October 13, 2010 - Episode 136 VKernel VMStats: Virtualization Reporting and Optimization with Christopher Chesley - January 29, 2010 - Episode 112 Virtualization Management Podcast with Alex Bakman from VKernel - April 30, 2008 - Episode 43 view more podcasts


	VKernel Capacity Management Suite: VMware Virtualization Management / Optimization Video Podcast with Alex Rosemblat – Episode 35 VKernel Capacity Analyzer 3.0: VMware Capacity Planning Video Podcast - Episode 13 VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer 2.0 Beta: VMware Monitoring Video Podcast - Episode 8 view more videos


	Related Media vDIBs- Getting the Most Out of your Virtual Infrastructure vDIBs vFoglight Custom Dashboards vDIBs Dell vFoglight Custom Dashboards TEC Europe 2012 Video: MVPs with Mattias Sundling vDIBs: Finding and Diagnosing Performance Issues in VKernel vOPS view more media


	White Papers ESG Lab Validation Report: Quest vWorkspace with Microsoft Hyper-V System Center Posted on March 12, 2013 - 05:27 Top 20 Hyper-V Performance Metrics You Should Care About Posted on February 05, 2013 - 17:16 Guessing is Not a Strategy: The Science of Capacity Management Posted on February 05, 2013 - 16:58 Free eBook: Best of 2012, Top Virtualization Management Articles Posted on January 17, 2013 - 23:22 Best Practices for Oversubscription of CPU, Memory & Storage in vSphere Environments Posted on November 14, 2012 - 14:56 The Most Important VMware & Hyper-V Metrics You Should Care About Posted on November 05, 2012 - 17:45 vOPs Server Enterprise Datasheet (formerly vFoglight and VKernel vOperations Suite) Posted on October 24, 2012 - 03:56 VM Memory (vRAM) Sizing Considerations Posted on October 19, 2012 - 03:38 Guessing Is Not a Strategy: The Science of Capacity Management Posted on September 26, 2012 - 03:27 VKernel Case Study: Venturian Hosting Posted on September 19, 2012 - 04:33 Ins and Outs of IOPS Posted on September 14, 2012 - 00:57 Demystifying CPU Ready (% RDY) as a Performance Metric Posted on August 24, 2012 - 02:57 Five Reasons to Give Hyper-V a Second Look Posted on July 11, 2012 - 11:50 Mythbusting Goes Virtual - Mattias Sundling and Eric Sloof Debunk Four Common vSphere “Truths” Posted on June 22, 2012 - 02:15 The Top 5 VM Configuration Issues that Cause Performance Problems Posted on June 13, 2012 - 14:30 Enhance VMware Performance: 3 Best Practices for Storage and Server Admins Posted on December 01, 2010 - 03:47 view more whitepapers


	Downloads vFoglight Storage - Powerful Storage Visibility from VM to Disk Spindle Posted on October 22, 2012 - 22:04 VKernel Capacity Modeler (Free) Posted on September 25, 2012 - 15:51 VKernel ApplicationVIEW (Free) Posted on September 21, 2012 - 10:11 Environment Explorer Utility Posted on September 20, 2012 - 01:52 VKernel vOptimizer (Free) Posted on September 12, 2012 - 11:31 view more downloads


	Contact Dell VKernel VKernel Corporation 300 Brickstone Square, Suite 503 Andover, MA 01810 USA Email: Inquiries: VKernel.Info@quest.com Sales: VKernelSalesSupport@quest.com Support: VKernelSupport@quest.com HR: VKernel.Jobs@quest.com Web contact form: http://www.vkernel.com/company/contact Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VKernel Twitter: http://twitter.com/VKernel YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/VKernelUniversity LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/245173 Web: http://www.vkernel.com

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