PlateSpin Recon Enterprise Edition – US$95.00/CPU core PlateSpin Recon is licensed per monitored CPU core. For example, a two-socket server with quad-core CPUs would require eight licenses. Good Opportunity Poor Opportunity PlateSpin® Recon Opportunity Assessment Pricing and Packaging Market Opportunity Value Proposition Qualification Questions Organizations that have embraced virtualization are seeing some initial ROI from their investment, but are being pressured for more. The rate at which virtual environments are growing means that more resources are being used than originally planned. Virtual machines often suffer from bloated resource allocations. Application owners specify maximum resources (and even add buffer) when requesting a server, and the IT department then often boosts these specs to ensure performance in the virtual environment. Virtual machines and hosts may constrain resources when requirements exceed availability, which impacts the performance of business services. Virtualization platforms don’t provide a holistic view of what resources their virtual machines are actually using. • At least 10 virtual hosts • “Virtualization-first” policy for new servers • Limited budget for new servers and virtual hosts • Low server consolidation ratios—less than 10-to-1 • Small data center with only a few virtual hosts • Primarily physical data center infrastructure with limited adoption of virtualization • Experiencing very high consolidation ratios (20-to-1) with acceptable performance • Just starting to experiment with virtualization on a small scale For organizations with a significant virtualized infrastructure, Virtual Capacity Management helps manage the real physical resources—and costs—of that infrastructure. Virtual Capacity Management Provides: • Accurate reporting on the free capacity you really have in your virtual environment • Reduced capital costs by reclaiming allocated but unused capacity and making it available for new VMs, postponing the purchase of new hardware • Reduced operating costs by eliminating excess power and cooling expense • Infrastructure growth forecasting that identifies service level risk from resource constraints before application owners experience performance degradation • Lowered risk of performance interruption by identifying where you have capacity bottlenecks in your virtual environment today, and predicting where you will have them in the future • Are you achieving your expected virtualization ROI and consolidation ratios? • Do you know the gap between the resources allocated to each VM, and the resources actually used? • Have you adopted a “virtualization-first” policy for new servers? • Do you always know where to create the next VM to maximize resource utilization while minimizing resource contention? • Do application owners still ask for physical servers because of virtualization performance concerns? • Do you suspect that you have virtual machines and hosts with excess capacity, and would you like a way to prove it? • Do you have more requests for new VMs than you can fulfill with available capacity and budget? • Can you proactively predict when to add capacity, or is performance degradation your first indicator? Virtual Capacity Management www.novell.com/solutions/virtualization-workload