Virtual Machine and Server Consolidation Software Solutions
PlateSpin is a Novell Company

PowerSolution for Disaster Recovery
Combining PowerRecon and PowerConvert, PlateSpin’s disaster recovery solution enables organizations to automatically develop business continuity plans and cost-effectively backup production servers to virtual machines.

 


Next Generation Server Protection
The PlateSpin PowerSolution for Disaster Recovery is the first to leverage virtual infrastructures to provide a flexible and affordable solution for backing up production servers to any virtual or physical recovery environment. PlateSpin’s unique solution extends current DR and virtualization investments and allows organizations to utilize their spare virtual server capacity to address common disaster recovery challenges.

 
The 80/20 Problem
Organizations typically spend 80% of their disaster recovery budget to protect only their most mission-critical servers – as little as 20% of their server network. This leaves 80% of servers under-insured, creating the potential for inconveniences and lost productivity.

Solution:
PlateSpin’s PowerSolution for Disaster Recovery allows organizations to back up more of their servers for less by using virtual recovery machines to protect data center servers
that have commonly been left under-insured.
The One-to-One Problem
Traditional DR solutions such as server clustering or data replication tend to require one-to-one hardware and software redundancy to protect data center assets, resulting in costly duplicate hardware and a higher total cost of ownership.


Solution:
PlateSpin’s consolidated disaster recovery solution can back up multiple servers to a single virtual recovery machine, allowing organizations to protect a greater percentage of their servers while avoiding costly hardware investments.
The Peace-of-Mind Problem
Many organizations have never fully tested their DR solutions in production, meaning they have no way of knowing for certain how quickly servers can be restored. This is because the complexity of traditional DR solutions makes testing difficult.


Solution:
The PlateSpin PowerSolution’s rapid test restore capabilities allow data centers to run quickly and easily test failure scenarios which were previously too time consuming for all but the most mission-critical server assets.
Where DR 2.0 Fits

Solution RPO* RTO* Cost Notes
Server clustering 0 0 $$$$
  • – Requires duplicate hardware
  • – Complicated setup
  • – Shared disk (point of failure)
DR 2.0 (P2V Recovery) Hours Minutes $$
  • – Back up multiple servers to a single virtual host
  • – Configure virtual recovery environment with a drag    and drop
  • – Rapid restore ("power on" recovery)
Disk Imaging 24 hr hours $$$
  • – Limited restore flexibility
  • – Slow, staged restore
Tape backup 24 hr+ days $
  • – Difficult to administer
  • – Slow to recover (Requires retrieval of tapes and    manual rebuild)
  • – Prone to errors


* Recovery Point Objective – the time between the latest backup and the system disaster, representing the nearest historical point in time to which a system can be recovered.
* Recovery Time Objective – the length of time between a system disaster and when the system is again operational.
 
A NOVELL COMPANY
PlateSpin and Novell are helping organizations worldwide build more flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center environments. The combination of PlateSpin and Novell products offers customers a powerful data center management platform with solutions for Linux, UNIX and Windows across physical and virtual environments. The global reach of the combined companies allows us to offer enterprises a full range of integrated solutions to make their IT work as one.