To test applications prior to production, many data centers operate large-scale test labs that are exact one-to-one replicas of production servers. The hardware required to maintain an exact duplicate of the production environment can be both costly and difficult to manage.

Virtualization allows organizations to dramatically reduce the number of servers required for testing. Using virtual machines, data centers are consolidating their test lab servers, running multiple virtual machines on a single virtual host.

However, test labs still struggle with setting up and tearing down complex virtual test labs and provisioning test environments. PlateSpin PowerConvert is software that accelerates test cycles by automating the deployment, setup and teardown of test labs on the fly.

PowerConvert streams servers between physical servers, virtual machines and image archives over the network, allowing test labs to quickly reconfigure test environments and optimize testing resources with a simple drag and drop.

Using PlateSpin PowerConvert, data centers can rapidly deploy virtual test lab environments with ease and automatically replicate an entire production environment including operating system, applications and data in a matter of hours or days instead of weeks or months.