Data Center Planning, Analysis and Ongoing Management
To ensure a maximum return on investment, successful data center initiatives require upfront planning and analysis. PlateSpin Recon is a workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that takes the guesswork out of complex server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, asset management and green data center initiatives.
PlateSpin Recon provides intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads with no manual effort. PlateSpin Recon remotely gathers workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the server workloads running in the data center and how their resources are being used.
PlateSpin Recon also provides powerful virtual infrastructure management features to help organizations monitor and manage the growth of virtual machines, avoid virtual infrastructure sprawl and automate IT chargeback for virtual resources.
PlateSpin Recon works in tandem with PlateSpin Migrate to provide organizations with a cohesive solution that simplifies planning, execution and ongoing management for physical and virtual data center initiatives.
PlateSpin Recon provides analysis and planning for:
- Server Consolidation
- Virtual Capacity Management
- Consolidated Recovery
- Green Computing
- Data Center Optimization
- Capacity Profiling & Planning
- IT Chargeback
- Virtual Infrastructure Management
- Collect inventory and utilization data across thousands of servers
- Determine the optimal fit between server resources and workloads
- Analyze power and cooling costs for green computing initiatives
- Accelerate data center projects by generating executable plans
- Manage virtual infrastructure growth on an ongoing basis
- Reclaim allocated but unused resources to maximize capacity
- Chargeback to business units based on resource allocation & usage
