PlateSpin Recon

Accelerate Data Center Initiatives

PlateSpin Recon is ready to improve the speed, quality and efficiency of every data center initiative you undertake. Here are some specific examples of how that can happen:

Rapidly collect inventory and utilization data across thousands of servers
Save time and effort by automating the collection of server inventory, workload and resource utilization data.

With PlateSpin Recon, you can remotely discover server hardware and software assets across your entire data center—regardless of the various virtual machines, operating systems and hardware platforms you have. PlateSpin Recon:
Supports Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.
Collects detailed information about each server in the network, including the operating system, installed and running applications or services, patch levels, CPU, memory, network and disk resources.
Identifies workloads and monitors utilization data over days, weeks or months to determine utilization trends.
Helps you make sure your data center is always optimized. It collects the key data points you need to assess and match workload sizes and resources.
Lets you import system performance data from HP Operations Center and Microsoft Operation Manager (MOM). In addition, PlateSpin Recon provides integration with VMware VirtualCenter to provide greater visibility into virtual data center environments.

Plan data center initiatives based on concrete data, analysis, trending and forecasting
Take the guesswork out of data center initiatives and achieve optimal results based on detailed analysis.

PlateSpin Recon offers the most advanced scenario modeling, forecasting and planning capabilities available for data center initiatives. With PlateSpin Recon, you can:

Create scenarios for distributing workloads across virtual hosts to maximize utilization and minimize resource contention.
Use powerful “what-if” modeling to determine different combinations of hardware and virtual hosts. This feature makes it possible to proactively account for future growth by using forecast workload and utilization values.
Enter your own experimental hardware builds to compare and cost-justify different scenarios based on power and cooling, total cost of ownership, consolidation ratio and rack space needs.
Properly group and size workloads according to their resource requirements to generate a successful consolidation or recovery plan.

Gain a clearer view of server workloads with advanced reporting and visualization
Increase visibility into ongoing resource utilization to keep your data center in perfect balance.

PlateSpin Recon provides customizable graphical reporting to view and manage workload and resource utilization over time for optimal data center operations. This includes the ability to:

Sort server workloads by CPU, memory, disk, network, inventory, performance or virtual machine type.
Compare power, cooling, space, cost and utilization metrics to identify workload and resource mismatches.
View summary workload sizing, power and cooling data or drill down to point-in-time granular levels using detailed tabular reports and time-series charts.
Create management reports by designing charts and customized report templates and easily generate the energy savings reports required to qualify for utility rebates.
Schedule the automated delivery of reports to IT specialists and service providers so they can easily track the state of your data center from anywhere in the world.
Create IT chargeback reports to calculate IT costs for business units based on their resource allocation or the actual usage of virtual resources.

Speed up data center initiatives by automatically generating executable plans
Ensure a rapid return on investment from data center initiatives with automated planning and execution.

Together, PlateSpin Recon and PlateSpin Migrate provide the only solution that automates project assessment, planning and execution from start to finish. That means you can accelerate data center initiatives by using PlateSpin Migrate to execute PlateSpin Recon plans and stream physical servers into virtual environments. By combining PlateSpin Recon and PlateSpin Migrate, you can:

Consolidate and protect your servers using virtual and blade infrastructures.
Use the most effective way to consolidate your workload on the resources you have.
Reduce conflicts between resources.
Lower your overhead for ongoing migration. PlateSpin Recon helps you balance workloads across target servers.