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PlateSpin Recon

Workload Profiling, Analysis and Planning
Successful data center initiatives require considerable up-front planning and analysis to ensure a maximum return on investment. PlateSpin® Recon is a sophisticated workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.

PlateSpin Recon collects inventory and workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the application services running in the data center and how their resources are being used. With broad multiplatform support, PlateSpin Recon takes the guesswork out of server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning and green data center initiatives.

Optimize Your Data Center With Workload Profiling for:
  • The ability to profile server workloads — physical or virtual hosts
  • The elimination of 'best guesses' to identify underutilized or underprotected servers and allocate sufficient resources for current and future needs
  • The visibility and intelligence needed to plan successful data center initiatives and optimize server workloads
Increase Visibility Across Multiplatform Environments for:
  • Broad support for Windows®, UNIX® and Linux® platforms
  • Scalability to accommodate large data centers
  • A true enterprise-scale workload profiling, planning and monitoring solution
  • Data that can be aggregated from multiple PlateSpin Recon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning to accommodate larger enterprises
  • A complete end-to-end solution with tightly integrated planning and execution for data center initiatives when combined with PlateSpin Migrate
Improve the Speed and Quality of Data Center Initiatives to:
  • Take the guesswork out of complex server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning and other data center initiatives
  • Remotely discover software and services inventory across the data center and analyze key workload utilization metrics to develop optimal plans

Better Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure to:
  • Help enterprises make the most of their virtualization investments by profiling, managing and optimizing virtual environments
  • Simplify common management tasks such as IT chargeback reporting and virtual machine growth reporting


Try PlateSpin Recon
Download the trial version of PlateSpin Recon Inventory Edition to collect and report on software and hardware inventory for physical or virtual servers running Windows, Linux and Sun® Solaris™ operating systems. (Limited to an inventory of 100 servers)