As data centers around the globe continue to adopt and implement virtualization solutions into their organizations, one of the issues or questions that always seem to pop up is - "how do I continue to charge-back for system resource usage from one department or customer to the next?" This virtualization pain point is slowly being addressed to make up for one of the shortcomings or differences between physical an As data centers around the globe continue to adopt and implement virtualization solutions into their organizations, one of the issues or questions that always seem to pop up is – “how do I continue to charge-back for system resource usage from one department or customer to the next?” This virtualization pain point is slowly being addressed to make up for one of the shortcomings or differences between physical and virtual infrastructures.Vizioncore, perhaps best known for its virtualization backup solution, announced the availability of esxCharter 2.0 which provides real-time and historical monitoring as well as enhanced performance control for the VMware ESX Server environment. The new 2.0 version offers its customers the ability to measure the use of individual virtual machines by business units, departments or other functional areas.According to Vizioncore, esxCharter allows VMware administrators to quickly diagnose performance bottlenecks in their infrastructure with a near real-time, ‘top-down’ view of their entire virtual infrastructure. They claim that each layer can be traversed for performance metrics to assist in fine-tuning performance for enhanced operation. Virtual machines can be compared to one another on a particular host to determine how best to adjust performance to overcome bottlenecks. esxCharter 2.0 was developed for compatibility with VMware’s VI3. And in addition to the charge-back feature, the product offers enhanced reporting, monitoring and configuration capabilities that include: trend reports with flexible query options, I/O performance metrics for intelligent views, SQL Server database for enhanced access and integration, and intelligent alerting and automated e-mailing of reports. The pricing for this solution starts at $299 per CPU socket. Software Development