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.

 
Features
System Requirements

PowerConvert Server

  • Windows 2000 Server (SP4)
  • Windows 2000 Advanced
    Server (SP4)
  • Windows 2003 Server
PowerConvert Client

  • Windows 2000 Server (SP4)
  • Windows 2000 Advanced
    Server (SP4)
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows 2003 Server

IIS 5.0 and up and the .NET Framework 2.0 (including ASP.NET) must be installed prior to installing the PowerConvert Server and Client

Disk Requirements

  • 1.5 GB of free disk space
Memory Requirements

  • Minimum 512 MB of RAM
Broad Platform Support

Virtual Machines
  • VMware® Infrastructure 3
  • VMware® ESX Server 2.5
    and higher
  • VMware® Server
  • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
    and 2005 R2
  • Virtual Iron 3.1 *
  • Citrix XenServer 4.1
Operating Systems
  • Windows NT Server (SP4,
    SP6a) **
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows 2003 Server R2
  • Windows 2003 Server (x64) **
  • Windows 2003 Server R2 (x64) **
  • Windows XP Professional (SP2)
  • Red Hat Linux (7.3, 8.0) **
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    (AS/ES 3.0, 4.0, 5.0) **
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
    (8.0, 9.0, 10) **
Image Archives
  • Acronis® True Image™
  • Symantec® LiveState™
  • PlateSpin Flexible Image Packages
  • Symantec® Ghost™ ***
Backup Solutions
  • Raw Volume Data ***
  • Veritas® Backup Exec™ ***
  • CA BrighStor ARCserv r11 ***
  • Double-Take® by Double-Take Software ***

* Virtual Machines treated
   as physical targets
** Supported for X2V only
*** Supported as Raw Volume Data
 
 
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.