Long time virtualization application provider PlateSpin announced an updated version of its award-winning PowerRecon data center planning and analysis solution. And although only a dot release increase, it offers powerful new features for managing, billing and optimizing VMware Infrastructure environments. The key features of PowerRecon Virtual Infrastructure Edition include: Virtual Machine Growth Reporting – T Long time virtualization application provider PlateSpin announced an updated version of its award-winning PowerRecon data center planning and analysis solution. And although only a dot release increase, it offers powerful new features for managing, billing and optimizing VMware Infrastructure environments.The key features of PowerRecon Virtual Infrastructure Edition include: Virtual Machine Growth Reporting – The practice of quickly and easily creating a new virtual machine to address almost any requirement can result in rapid proliferation of virtual machines. PlateSpin PowerRecon enables organizations to better monitor and manage the growth of VMware Infrastructure without having to implement restrictive IT policies or lengthy approval procedures. By providing greater visibility into how the dynamic virtual infrastructure is growing and changing, IT directors gain a deeper understanding of how many virtual machines are deployed, who owns them and how they use available resources. Flexible Chargeback Reporting – Virtualization creates a pool of computing resources that can be shared across many different workloads, which need to be tracked and whose costs need to be allocated appropriately. With PowerRecon, IT organizations can 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. PowerRecon 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 resources. Chargeback reports can be automatically delivered to business units via email in a variety of formats. VMware VirtualCenter Integration – Integration with VMware VirtualCenter provides visibility into the virtual infrastructure, improving data center management and operations. Familiar virtual infrastructure terms and organizational models accelerate ramp-up time and reduce software learning curves. One-click Inventory Collection – Easily obtain the latest inventory of the virtual hosts in the data center with one-click inventory refresh or schedule inventory collection at regular intervals to keep pace with a rapidly growing and changing virtual infrastructure. Capture a detailed inventory of the contents of a virtual machine to obtain a more thorough and holistic view of the virtual environment. Accelerated Discovery – The performance of PowerRecon’s discovery feature has been greatly enhanced, allowing the discovery of an entire network in minutes. Accelerated discovery improves data center management by allowing staff to more rapidly identify rogue servers, monitor the proliferation of virtual machines and avoid virtual sprawl. PowerRecon is capable of remotely discovering servers across a 65,000 node network in less than ten minutes, making the product unique in its management of large data centers. PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.1 Virtual Infrastructure Edition is generally available and pricing is based on a per VMware ESX Server CPU model. PowerRecon Virtual Infrastructure Edition is priced at $295 (USD) per socket. Software Development