Virtual Machine and Server Consolidation Software Solutions
PlateSpin is a Novell Company

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.

 
PowerRecon Features and Requirements
System Requirements

PowerRecon Server

Minimum Requirements*
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Pentium 4, 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 4 GB Free Disk Space
  • .NET Framework v2.0 and MDAC v2.6, v2.8


Multiplatform Monitoring

Microsoft Windows
  • Windows NT 4.0
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
UNIX**
  • Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10
    (Sparc and x86)
  • Sun Solaris 7 (Sparc)
Linux
  • Red Hat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS/ES,3.0 AS/ES,
    4.0 AS/ES and 4.4 AS/ES
  • Novell SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1
Virtual Machines
  • VMware Infrastructure 3
  • VMware ESX Server 3, 3.5 and 3i
  • VMware Server
  • Microsoft Virtual Server
  • Virtual Iron
  • Citrix XenServer
Data Collection Sources
  • PowerRecon remote data collection
  • HP Operations Center
  • Microsoft Operation Manager (MOM)
* Minimum requirements are based on 1-10 servers. Requirements scale as the number of monitored servers increases.

** UNIX is supported for PowerRecon inventory, data collection and reporting (not consolidation planning).
 
A NOVELL COMPANY
PlateSpin and Novell are helping organizations worldwide build more flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center environments. The combination of PlateSpin and Novell products offers customers a powerful data center management platform with solutions for Linux, UNIX and Windows across physical and virtual environments. The global reach of the combined companies allows us to offer enterprises a full range of integrated solutions to make their IT work as one.