Platespin

Virtual Machine and Server Consolidation Software Solutions

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, PlateSpin improves the speed and quality of server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery initiatives.

PowerConvert is a powerful workload portability solution that provides the flexibility to configure and optimize the data centre by streaming workloads over the network between physical servers, blade infrastructures, virtual hosts and image and backup archives.

PowerConvert is the first and only solution that remotely decouples workloads from the underlying server hardware and streams them to and from any physical or virtual host with a simple drag and drop. By removing the dependency between a data center’s infrastructure layer and the business applications that run on it, PowerConvert allows organizations to continually match service level requirements with available resources by rapidly reconfiguring, relocating and optimizing workloads – all from a single point of control without having to be in physical contact with source or target servers.

Beyond P2V

When migrating to virtual infrastructures, organizations have tended to focus on one-time physical-to-virtual (P2V) workload conversions. While automating P2V migrations is one critical component for the successful adoption of virtualization, it does not address the ongoing requirement for workload portability in the data centre or the need to utilize workload profile data for continuous optimization. As the use of virtualization technology evolves, organizations are increasingly embracing a broader view of anywhere to-anywhere workload portability. The flexibility to move and rebalance workloads in any direction between physical and virtual hosts – physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical, virtual to- virtual, physical-to-physical, in and out of imaging formats and so on – ensures optimal data centre efficiency. Anywhere-to anywhere portability also enables organizations to better address common challenges such as end-of lease hardware migration and periodic necessities such as de-virtualization of applications to account for changing workloads, diagnose problems and comply with maintenance and support agreements.