See the big picture. Advanced
capacity planning & analysis.
Highlights
Take the guesswork out of consolidation planning
Are you relying on best guesses to identify underused physical servers and virtual hosts? PlateSpin® Recon's unique workload profiling tracks actual CPU, disk, memory, and network utilization over time, on both physical and virtual hosts.
Extend the life of your virtual infrastructure
PlateSpin Recon's Virtual Capacity Management finds underused resources in your virtualized IT environment and lets you reclaim or reassign allocated resources.
Increase visibility across multiplatform environments
With PlateSpin Recon you get a true enterprise-scale workload analysis, planning and management solution that works across platforms.
Get WorkloadIQ Management Benefits
PlateSpin Recon, a WorkloadIQ product, collects inventory and workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of all the hardware and application services running in the data center. Using this data to maximize server consolidation and other data center initiatives, PlateSpin Recon delivers on the WorkloadIQ promise of lowering your total cost of ownership by ensuring the optimal execution of workloads and the best utilization of IT assets.
Success Stories
Essent
The PlateSpin solution from Novell saved Essent about €2 million for the data centre consolidation project alone," said Spoel. "The solution also made it possible to complete our data centre consolidation without any costly business disruption, and with considerably reduced risk. The value to our organization over time could easily be in the order of hundreds of millions of euros.
The South African Department of Trade and Industry
PlateSpin Recon gave the dti the concrete data it needed to build its server virtualisation strategy, with consolidation scenarios showing how the peaks and troughs of different combinations of virtual servers would combine when running together.
