Server Consolidation, Disaster Recovery with Virtual Machines

A Better and Safer Way to Consolidate Servers
Consolidating physical servers to virtual machines is easier said than done. A successful server consolidation initiative requires upfront planning and robust, enterprise-ready solutions that automate the tasks of planning, testing and migrating server workloads to the virtual environment. Organizations that trust their consolidation initiative to lower-cost or free migration solutions find out the hard way that this approach can increase risk and impact time to value. PlateSpin’s best practice server consolidation solution features integrated planning, migration and testing to enable enterprises to consolidate servers with minimal risk, downtime or data loss.

Reduce Risk
To improve the speed and quality of server consolidation initiatives and avoid unnecessary risk, enterprises need a robust, enterprise-ready migration solution that can handle the real-world complexities of today’s server workloads. PlateSpin’s server consolidation solution, which combines PowerRecon and PowerConvert software, provides integrated assessment, planning, migration and testing to enable successful, risk-free server consolidations.

Reduce Downtime
When consolidating server workloads onto a virtual host, rigorous testing is required to ensure that the workload will run as expected in the virtual environment. PlateSpin PowerConvert enables live testing with no disruption to source systems. No longer is your IT staff constrained to testing within nightly maintenance windows. They can conduct testing whenever they need and for as long as they need to ensure that workloads will run in the virtual environment. You no longer need to “power on and pray” that your consolidated workloads will run.

Reduce Data Loss
Traditional migration tools rely on point-in-time snapshots to capture and migrate production workloads while the source continues to run. This approach is inadequate because changes that occur during migration and testing are not reflected on the target virtual machine. PlateSpin PowerConvert does not rely on snapshot replication, but rather continuously captures source workload changes and synchronizes them to the target, dramatically reducing the possibility of data loss. The result is a perfect mirror of the production workload for critical testing. Once the testing is complete, PowerConvert’s Server Sync feature will briefly shut down the source to perform a final synchronization to the target virtual host.

Solutions PlateSpin data center automation solutions optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise. Our virtualization solutions include physical-to-virtual (P2V) server consolidation, disaster recovery, server optimization and test lab automation.
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