PlateSpin® Recon lets you do more with your existing infrastructure, and defer additional hardware purchases.

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.
• Use resource reclamation reports to find underutilized workloads and resources.

PlateSpin Recon Features

Remote Data Collection

PlateSpin Recon remotely collects inventory and performance data with no need to physically touch data center servers. PlateSpin Recon's run-once inventory collector gathers comprehensive server inventory data. Performance data is collected regularly via standard OS instrumentation capabilities. You can also import utilization data directly from your existing monitoring tools.

Enterprise-level Scalability

Robust data collection, analysis and planning for all servers in the network puts PlateSpin Recon in a class all its own for large-scale data center consolidation projects. You can aggregate data from geographically-dispersed PlateSpin Recon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning. This also accommodates larger implementations.

Workload Analysis

The PlateSpin Recon Capacity Planning Module automatically analyzes the five critical dimensions of workload—CPU, disk, memory, network and time—across thousands of servers simultaneously. This gives you consolidation plans that maximize utilization while minimizing resource contention.

Workload and Utilization Forecasting

Predict future workloads and resource utilization based on historical trends to better plan for server consolidation and infrastructure growth. This lets you be more proactive in your systems management. Forecasting data on CPU, disk, memory and usage trends is presented in easy-to-read charts, reports and plans.

Resource Reclamation

PlateSpin Recon's Resource Reclamation reports identify gaps between allocation and actual utilization. Closing these gaps maximizes the virtual resource capacity of existing infrastructure. This extends useful service life and lets you postpone new hardware purchases.

VM Performance Analysis

PlateSpin Recon can help improve the performance of workloads by identifying hidden configuration errors in virtual machines.

VM Growth Reporting

Run virtual machine growth reports to monitor the proliferation of virtual machines and avoid the administrative headaches associated with virtual machine sprawl.

Flexible Chargeback Reporting

Because virtualization creates a pool of computing resources, it can be difficult to manage and monitor how virtual resources are being used and by whom. PlateSpin Recon allows you to effectively allocate and share virtual resources across various business units and departmental owners. PlateSpin Recon's flexible charge-back reporting capabilities improve virtual infrastructure management and financial accounting by allowing organizations to accurately calculate IT costs based on actual resource usage.