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

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, our products improve the speed and quality of server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery initiatives.

 
Packages/Feature Comparison
With a choice of packages and affordable enterprise and project-based pricing options, PowerConvert is ideal for long-term enterprise data center optimization and disaster recovery initiatives as well as limited-duration projects. Usage-based pricing provides a low-cost entry point for customers and system integrators to use PowerConvert for multiple projects. Workload-based pricing allows PowerConvert to perform recurring workload movement from source to target hosts at no additional cost for solutions like disaster recovery.

PowerConvert Packages/Feature Comparison*
  Project
Edition
Standard
Edition
Universal
Edition
Enterprise
Edition
 
Ideal for one-time projects such as server consolidation hardware migration and data center relocation
Used for long-term data center initiatives such as server provisioning, ongoing workload management and optimization.
Includes all the features of Standard Edition plus workload protection and consolidated recovery
Offers the broadest support for all workloads in the data center (includes block-level transfer for high-transactional environments)
Solutions
Workload Relocation
Workload Provisioning  
Workload Optimization  
Workload Protection    
Features
P2V
P2P
V2V
V2P
Flexible Image Capture
Flexible Image Deploy
Manual Incremental Transfers/Server Sync™
Automated Incremental Transfers w/ Synchronization Schedules™    
File-based
Live Transfer
Block-level
Live Transfer
     
Suitable Workloads
Stateless (middle-tier applications, presentation servers, web front-ends)
Low Transactional (DHCP, Infrastructure, non-critical databases)
High Transactional (Mail servers, critical databases)     1
Pricing Per Use Per Server Workload Per Server Workload Per Server Workload


* Product packaging, pricing and system requirements may be subject to change.
1 Note: A short period of system downtime may be required for initial replication.
 
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.