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Novell PlateSpin PowerCovert
Multiplatform workload portability and protection.
PlateSpin PowerConvert empowers enterprises to manage and optimize the data center by migrating server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives. |
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PowerConvert remotely decouples workloads from the underlying server hardware and streams them to and from any physical and virtual host with a simple drag and drop. 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 center efficiency.
With PowerConvert, enterprises can 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
Together, PowerConvert and PowerRecon, PlateSpin’s advanced analysis and planning software, provide a comprehensive data center management solution that includes integrated planning, testing and migration for critical enterprise initiatives such as server consolidation, hardware lease migration, data center relocation and disaster recovery.
The Value Proposition
- Migrate and protect workloads regardless of platform or virtual host
- Drag and drop workloads across physical and virtual hosts
- Reduce risk with automated planning, migration and live testing
- Improve the speed and quality of data center initiatives
- Use virtualization as a cost-effective disaster recovery platform
- Augment existing recovery plans with efficient imaging support
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Novell PlateSpin Forge
“Plug In and Protect” Physical and Virtual Server Workload
PlateSpin Forge is a consolidated recovery hardware appliance that protects both physical and virtual server workloads using embedded virtualization technology. In the event of a production server outage or disaster, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. |
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Designed to protect between 10 and 25 workloads, PlateSpin Forge ships with all storage, applications and virtualization technology pre-packaged and ready to go. Organizations can also opt to leverage existing SAN storage for the recovery environment. For larger implementations, multiple PlateSpin Forge appliances can be deployed and centrally managed through a “single pane of glass” management console.
By dramatically reducing the time and specialized technical resources required to plan, provision, deploy and test a recovery environment, PlateSpin Forge puts workload protection and recovery within reach for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as departments and branch offices within larger enterprises. With PlateSpin Forge, organizations can begin reliably protecting their physical and virtual workloads in a matter of hours as opposed to months.
The Value Proposition
- Recover multiple workloads using a single recovery appliance
- Consolidate workloads for a 10 to 1 or 25 to 1 workload protection ratio
- Power on recovery workloads with a single click
- Rapidly restore workloads to the same or different hardware
- Quickly run DR “fire drills” to test restore times and disaster readiness
- Easily monitor and report on key replication and recovery functions
- Improve RTO and RPO without costly hardware/software redundancy
- Single pane of glass visibility across multiple appliances
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Novell PlateSpin Recon
Data Center Planning, Analysis and Ongoing Management
To ensure a maximum return on investment, successful data center initiatives require upfront planning and analysis. PlateSpin Recon is a workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that takes the guesswork out of complex server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, asset management and green data center initiatives.
PlateSpin Recon provides intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads with no manual effort. PlateSpin Recon remotely gathers workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the server workloads running in the data center and how their resources are being used.
PlateSpin Recon also provides powerful virtual infrastructure management features to help organizations monitor and manage the growth of virtual machines, avoid virtual infrastructure sprawl and automate IT chargeback for virtual resources.
PlateSpin Recon works in tandem with PlateSpin Migrate to provide organizations with a cohesive solution that simplifies planning, execution and ongoing management for physical and virtual data center initiatives.
The Value Proposition
- Collect inventory and utilization data across thousands of servers
- Determine the optimal fit between server resources and workloads
- Analyze power and cooling costs for green computing initiatives
- Accelerate data center projects by generating executable plans
- Manage virtual infrastructure growth on an ongoing basis
- Chargeback to business units based on resource allocation & usage
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Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.
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