Consolidating servers onto VMware virtual infrastructure brings tremendous benefits, but it also creates new management challenges for CIOs and IT directors. PlateSpin Recon Virtual Infrastructure Edition provides the visibility needed to better manage and control the VMware virtual infrastructure. With powerful features to help data centers avoid virtual sprawl and accurately chargeback IT costs, PlateSpin Recon enables organizations to make the most of their VMware investments.

PlateSpin Recon’s advanced chargeback reporting allows IT organizations to track, assign or report on costs and allocate IT charges to different business units based on their actual disk, CPU and network usage per virtual machine. PlateSpin Recon automatically converts IT resource usage data into billable values over set time periods such as monthly or quarterly, allowing IT departments to more easily and accurately charge for shared virtual resources.

PlateSpin Recon also enables organizations to better monitor and manage the proliferation of VMware virtual machines. Virtualization makes it easy to provision a new virtual machine to address almost any requirement. Over time, this practice can lead to poor resource utilization and an unwieldy infrastructure. PlateSpin Recon virtual machine growth reporting gives IT directors a deeper understanding of how many virtual machines are deployed, who owns them and how they use available resources. With this increased visibility, organizations are able to maintain the added responsiveness and agility that comes from virtualization while curbing virtual sprawl.