PlateSpin Products - PowerRecon

Plan, manage and optimize server workloads.

Successful data center initiatives such as server consolidation and disaster recovery require upfront planning, analysis and ongoing monitoring to ensure a maximum return on investment. PlateSpin PowerRecon is a sophisticated planning and analysis solution that helps enterprises optimize the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads and remotely gathering workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the application running in the data center and how their resources are being used.

Improve the Speed and Quality of Data Center Initiatives
Virtualization initiatives cannot be undertaken without a thorough understanding of the server workloads running in the data center. Previously, data center managers had to rely on best guesses to identify underutilized or under-protected servers and allocate sufficient resources for current and future needs. PlateSpin PowerRecon takes the guesswork out of complex server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning and other data center initiatives by remotely discovering software and services inventory across the data center and analyzing key workload utilization metrics to develop optimal server consolidation and disaster recovery plans.

Better Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure
Consolidating server workloads into a virtual infrastructure creates new challenges. Without effective management, virtual machines can rapidly proliferate, leading to poor resource utilization and an unwieldy infrastructure. In a virtualized IT environment, charging for shared IT resources is also more complicated. Virtualization creates a pool of computing resources that can be shared across many different workloads, making it difficult to determine how resources are being used and to whom IT costs should be allocated. PlateSpin PowerRecon helps enterprises make the most of their virtualization investments by monitoring, managing and optimizing virtual environments and automating common management tasks such IT chargeback reporting and virtual machine growth reporting.

Enterprise-Level Scalability and Multiplatform Support
With broad support for today’s distributed, multiplatform environments and unprecedented scalability to accommodate the world’s largest data centers, PowerRecon provides a true enterprise-scale workload profiling, planning and monitoring solution. Each instance of PowerRecon can monitor up to 2,000 servers. Data can be aggregated from multiple PowerRecon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning or to accommodate larger enterprises. When combined with PlateSpin PowerConvert, organizations gain a complete end-to-end management and optimization solution with tightly integrated planning and execution for data center initiatives.

PlateSpin products allow organizations to adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. With support for physical and virtual machines, as well as images, our products improve the speed and quality of server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery initiatives.
Products PlateSpin Forge PowerConvert PowerRecon Overview Uses of PowerRecon Features System Requirements Packaging Options Green Calculator Virtual Infrastructure Edition	PlateSpin PowerRecon Plan, manage and optimize server workloads. Successful data center initiatives such as server consolidation and disaster recovery require upfront planning, analysis and ongoing monitoring to ensure a maximum return on investment. PlateSpin PowerRecon is a sophisticated planning and analysis solution that helps enterprises optimize the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads and remotely gathering workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the application running in the data center and how their resources are being used. 3 Reasons to Purchase PowerRecon Improve the Speed and Quality of Data Center Initiatives Virtualization initiatives cannot be undertaken without a thorough understanding of the server workloads running in the data center. Previously, data center managers had to rely on best guesses to identify underutilized or under-protected servers and allocate sufficient resources for current and future needs. PlateSpin PowerRecon takes the guesswork out of complex server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning and other data center initiatives by remotely discovering software and services inventory across the data center and analyzing key workload utilization metrics to develop optimal server consolidation and disaster recovery plans. Better Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure Consolidating server workloads into a virtual infrastructure creates new challenges. Without effective management, virtual machines can rapidly proliferate, leading to poor resource utilization and an unwieldy infrastructure. In a virtualized IT environment, charging for shared IT resources is also more complicated. Virtualization creates a pool of computing resources that can be shared across many different workloads, making it difficult to determine how resources are being used and to whom IT costs should be allocated. PlateSpin PowerRecon helps enterprises make the most of their virtualization investments by monitoring, managing and optimizing virtual environments and automating common management tasks such IT chargeback reporting and virtual machine growth reporting. Enterprise-Level Scalability and Multiplatform Support With broad support for today’s distributed, multiplatform environments and unprecedented scalability to accommodate the world’s largest data centers, PowerRecon provides a true enterprise-scale workload profiling, planning and monitoring solution. Each instance of PowerRecon can monitor up to 2,000 servers. Data can be aggregated from multiple PowerRecon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning or to accommodate larger enterprises. When combined with PlateSpin PowerConvert, organizations gain a complete end-to-end management and optimization solution with tightly integrated planning and execution for data center initiatives.