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PlateSpin Recon
Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
PlateSpin® Recon is a sophisticated workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Improve consolidation ratioes. Take the guesswork out of consolidation planning. Are you relying on best guesses to identify underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts? How can you be sure you are allocating sufficient resources for current and future needs? Put an end to guess work with PlateSpin® Recon. PlateSpin Recon’s unique workload profiling tracks actual CPU, disk, memory, and network utilization over time, on both physical and virtual hosts. Every server workload and virtual host has utilization peaks and valleys. PlateSpin Recon can build consolidation scenarios that match these peaks and valleys. This reduces resource contention and ensures higher consolidation ratios compared to other approaches that use just a single snapshot or record only peak usage. And higher consolidation ratios mean better use and longer life for your current hardware, and fewer new servers to buy in the future.
Extend the life of your virtual infrastructure. Let your infrastructure live long and prosper. Without effective management, virtual machines can rapidly proliferate. This leads to poor resource usage and gives you an unwieldy infrastructure. PlateSpin Recon’s Virtual Capacity Management finds underused resources in your virtualized IT environment. (Even though the virtualization platform may show 100 percent allocation.) By reporting on the actual available resources, PlateSpin Recon lets you reclaim or reassign allocated resources. And moving these resources to new VMs, or to other VMs that require more resources, makes great business sense. It defers the need to purchase new hardware, and extends the usable life of your current hardware.
Increase visibility across multi-platform environments. See the big picture. Need support for Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms? Need the kind of scalability that accommodates the world’s largest data centers? PlateSpin Recon is right for you. Get a true enterprise-scale workload analysis, planning and management solution that works across platforms. Data can be aggregated from multiple PlateSpin Recon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning to meet the needs of larger enterprises. And when combined with PlateSpin Migrate, the Novell multiplatform workload migration solution, you’ll gain a complete end-to-end solution with tightly integrated planning and execution for data center initiatives.
PlateSpin Migrate
Powerful Workload Portability
PlateSpin Migrate is a powerful workload portability solution that automates the movement of server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives.
Migrate and Optimize Server Workloads. Move physical and virtual workloads at will. PlateSpin Migrate is a multi-platform workload portability solution that delivers the migration speed and reliability needed to accommodate the world’s largest data centers. Designed to handle the real-world complexities of mixed IT environments, PlateSpin Migrate is ready to help you move and protect all of your workloads.
Support Today’s Multi-platform Environments. Make physical and virtual environments work as one. PlateSpin Migrate offers the industry’s most comprehensive support for mixed IT environments, so you can use a single product for all the diverse workloads in your data center. With broad support for Windows and Linux, as well as leading server hardware and hypervisor technologies, PlateSpin Migrate makes it easy to move, copy and replicate data, applications and operating systems across physical and virtual environments.
Reduce Business Risks. Consolidate with confidence. With Live Testing and Server Sync™, PlateSpin Migrate reduces the risks when you consolidate servers or relocate your data center. Live Testing and Server Sync let you transfer server workloads quickly to a new target site or host. Then you can test the workload in the new location while continuing to run the source and perform a final sync before cutting over the workload. Server Sync can also speed up workload migrations over wide area networks since it doesn’t need to replicate the full system.
PlateSpin Migrate for UNIX. Are you ready for a powerful workload migration solution that empowers you to migrate server workloads from physical Solaris servers to virtual Containers? If so, then you’re ready for PlateSpin® Migrate for UNIX. This solution from Novell remotely decouples workloads from the underlying server hardware and streams them over the network-all from a single point of control.
PlateSpin Protect
Scalable Enterprise Workload Protection
PlateSpin Protect is a powerful workload protection solution that replicates and rapidly recovers whole server workloads including data, applications and operating systems—all from a single point of control.
Protect Your Server Workloads. Are all your systems and data safe? Most organizations spend around 80 percent of their disaster recovery budgets to protect 20 percent of their network. PlateSpin® Protect can help you close that gap by offering you a smarter enterprise solution for deploying, testing and managing your disaster recovery environment. With PlateSpin Protect, you can protect whole server workloads—both system and data volumes—within a single bootable recovery environment.
Build a Flexible Recovery Solution. Choose the best approach for your business. PlateSpin Protect provides the most flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for protecting physical and virtual workloads in your data center. It offers a range of workload protection alternatives in a single product.
Speed Recovery Times. Recover workloads quickly. With PlateSpin Protect, recovery in the event of failure is as fast and simple as powering on a virtual machine. That means you will get faster recovery time and improved recovery point objectives (RPO) across all your server workloads. PlateSpin Protect also gives you the flexibility to restore workloads to any physical or virtual host regardless of manufacturer, make or model. With improved block-based transfer technology, PlateSpin Protect backup and restore replications are up to 50 percent faster than before.
PlateSpin Forge
Affordable Consolidated Disaster Recovery
PlateSpin Forge is a disaster recovery hardware appliance that provides a smarter, faster and more affordable way to replicate and protect server workloads in the data center.
Whole Workload Protection. Protect systems and data with a single appliance. PlateSpin Forge revolutionizes the way you can deploy, test and manage disaster recovery It is an affordable, out-of-the-boxsolution for protecting workloads in your data center. With PlateSpin Forge, you can protect whole server workloads—both system and data volumes—within a single bootable recovery environment.
Fast, Reliable Recovery. Slow recovery is like no recovery. If you can’t recover data quickly and seamlessly, you end up with disruptions and lose business. With PlateSpin Forge, recovering lost data is as fast and easy as turning on a virtual machine. That means you get faster recovery times and improved recovery point objectives across a broad range of server workloads.
Simple Management. Take control of your disaster recovery solution. PlateSpin Forge has an easy-to-use web-based interface for managing and monitoring your disaster recovery solution. With an always-available dashboard, you can view the status of your protection plan and send actionable alerts to mobile devices. This unique integrated interface greatly reduces the time, effort and training you’ll need to administer your recovery solution.
Easy Testing. It’s not safe until you test it. Regular testing is a critical component of a solid disaster recovery plan. PlateSpin Forge makes it easy to quickly test the integrity of your replication solution. With a single click, you can take a virtual snapshot of your recovery workload and power it on inside a private internal network. Then quickly validate your recovery plan and make sure recovery time and point objectives (RTO and RPO) and other critical recovery metrics are being met. And because this test snapshot is fenced off from your production network, you never have to worry about affecting user productivity.
PlateSpin Orchestrate
Simplify the Management of All Your Virtual Machines
PlateSpin Orchestrate helps you maximize the value of your data center technologies by enabling your physical and virtual resources to work as one.
Virtual Machine Management. Who directs all your virtual assets? It doesn’t have to be you. PlateSpin Orchestrate is a Novell product that helps data center administrators to automate the management of large collections of virtual machines. It keeps your physical and virtual resources working together and focused on your business priorities. When a problem arises, PlateSpin Orchestrate can automatically take action. For example, it can provision and configure a new virtual server, and get it up and running to perform whatever business-critical task is needed.
Policy-driven Optimization. Easily match your workloads with just the right resources. An extensible policy definition language allows you to control exactly how workloads and resources are matched. Powerful constraint and rule-based execution policies make it simple to automate the reservation of resources. Reservation of shared resources can also be pre-empted from lower priority tasks. This ensures that your most critical operations are performed while meeting service-level objectives. In addition, resource operations can be scheduled or triggered by events based on utilization and performance metrics.
Auditing and Reporting. Log and track the information you need to report. Accounting and auditing functionality logs task activity for reporting purposes. You get aggregated cost accounting for scheduled tasks and compute processing consumed in a shared resource pool.
Run Book Automation. PlateSpin Orchestrate is the ideal platform to instrument the creation of workflows that automate the provisioning of composite applications across shared and fixed resource pools. Policies can be used to ensure that service levels are maintained as demands are increased. Workflows can be crafted based on different constraints and hierarchy, allowing IT administrators to establish automated control of the process flow across multiple systems based on time, workload, user, service level, and resource types.
HPC Ready. Maximize the performance of your grid-based applications. Compute-processing management helps your grid-based applications to maximize performance in two important ways. First, by intelligently distributing parallel executions. And second, by automating high performance multi-cast data transfers to remote processing resources.
Freedom of Choice. Take control of all kinds of virtual machines. PlateSpin Orchestrate supports all major hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen and VMware ESX (with or without Virtual Center) and ESXi (with Virtual Center). PlateSpin Orchestrate discovers virtual machine hosts and existing virtual machines, and can provision newly-created virtual machines to the appropriate hosts.
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