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PlateSpin® Migration Solutions for Dell* Virtualization-optimized ServersOptimize Your Data Center with PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-pack) and (P2V 5-pack)

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PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack) solution

Migrate up to three virtual workloads to “bare-metal” Dell PowerEdge servers

Reconfigure workloads during migration to “right-size” resource allocation

Get it free with qualifying Dell PowerEdge servers

Virtualized data center environments offer obvious and compelling advantages for IT organizations, but they also present some interesting new challenges. Virtualization technology can provide new levels of flexi-bility, make your data center more resilient and significantly lower your operating costs. However, to take full advantage of these benefits, you need tools that make it easy to migrate, balance and manage workloads quickly—across all your available virtual and physical hardware resources.

To promote this type of flexible and agile environment, Novell and Dell have teamed up to provide Dell customers with basic, low-cost migration solutions—powered by PlateSpin® technology from Novell— designed specifically for virtualized data center environments. With these tools, any organization that purchases qualifying Dell* virtualization-optimized servers can use the PlateSpin Migrate product to move virtual workloads to its new Dell hardware—or move workloads on existing physical servers to Dell virtual servers—quickly and efficiently.

This white paper outlines some of the specific advantages and capabilities these migration solutions can offer Dell server users—and describes some of the addi-tional capabilities found in the full version of PlateSpin Migrate from Novell.

Introducing PlateSpin Migrate for Dell: V2P and P2V

When you purchase any new virtualization-optimized server, you qualify for a free

PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack) license that you can use to migrate up to three virtual workloads to physical Dell servers. Your server purchase also qualifies you for steep dis-counts on a special PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-Pack) license that enables you to move up to five existing physical workloads onto Dell virtual servers. By simply activating these licenses and downloading the appro-priate PlateSpin Migrate for Dell software from the Novell Web site, you can immediately begin using one, or both, of these solutions to migrate physical and virtual workloads and to integrate your new Dell servers into your virtual environment.

These two PlateSpin Migrate for Dell offerings essentially decouple workloads from the underlying hardware or hypervisor. This makes it easy to move virtual workloads to new physical hardware—and move physical workloads to virtual environments—without conflicts, compatibility problems or other typical migration issues.

PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack) License

The free V2P 3-Pack license, available with every qualifying Dell virtualization-optimized server, is ideal for migrating up to three existing 32- or 64-bit Windows* or Linux* workloads from a virtual infrastructure to new, bare-metal Dell servers. This basic solution can help you easily reconfigure workloads during the migration process and “right-size” resource allocation to meet the specific needs of your data center environment.

Efficient Migration Options for Virtualized Data Centers

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PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-Pack) License

With the low-cost PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-Pack) license, you can consolidate up to five physical workloads onto one or more virtual servers. This solution simplifies and automates the process of migrating your existing physical Windows and Linux work-loads to virtual machines. It allows you to perform live Windows workload migrations, so you can dramatically reduce server down-time during the cutover process. And it can help you reduce migration risks and down-time as you migrate physical workloads to virtual servers.

For example, you could use PlateSpin Migrate for Dell P2V to back up a physical Dell server workload to a virtual machine. This makes it possible to quickly migrate the virtual instance on a data recovery server to new physical hardware if the primary physical server ever fails. Many IT organizations create this type of virtual to physical data recovery infrastructure

to accelerate data recovery, make workloads more secure, and comply with specific policies and regulations.

Installing and Using the PlateSpin Migrate for Dell solutions

After you activate the PlateSpin for Dell V2P or P2V license and download the software from the Novell Web site, you can install the solutions on any virtual or physical machine running a Windows server operating system where IIS, ASP.NET and the .NET Framework 2.0 are installed. The PlateSpin Migrate for Dell solutions will guide you through the pro-cess of discovering virtual or physical source workloads in your environment, selecting a physical or virtual target, and migrating workloads from the source to the target. Both solutions also include a powerful analyzer tool you can use to determine whether the workloads you are planning to migrate are suitable candidates and to identify and resolve any potential problems.

PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-Pack) solution

Automate Windows and Linux workload migrations from physical to Dell virtual servers

Perform live Windows workload migrations to reduce server downtime during cutover

Reduce risks and downtime during workload migrations

Anywhere-to-Anywhere Workload Migrations

Figure 1. The full version of PlateSpin Migrate makes it easy to migrate server workloads regardless of hardware, operating system or virtual host.

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The two versions of PlateSpin Migrate for Dell that ship with Dell servers are ready to help you migrate physical and virtual

workloads to your new Dell hardware quickly and efficiently—and provide a smooth

transition to all the anywhere-to-anywhere migration benefits of the full version of

PlateSpin Migrate.

The Full Version of PlateSpin Migrate from Novell

Migrate unlimited numbers of Windows

or Linux workloads quickly and reliably regardless of hardware platform or virtual host

Drag and drop workloads across physical and virtual hosts

Reduce risk with automated planning, migration and live testing

Improve the speed and quality of data center initiatives

Moving to the Full Version of PlateSpin Migrate from Novell

The basic PlateSpin Migrate for Dell solutions offered with Dell servers are designed to give you basic V2P and P2V migration capabilities. They also offer a smooth upgrade path to the more advanced migration and management capabilities found in the complete, full-featured version of PlateSpin Migrate. This means you can use the basic solution to migrate work-loads to your new virtualization-optimized Dell servers immediately, get a feel for the impressive capabilities of PlateSpin Migrate, and then move easily to the complete version for a comprehensive anywhere-to-anywhere migration solution.

This complete, full-featured version will allow you to:

Make all your data center workloads completely portable by streaming them between physical machines, blade infrastructures, virtual hosts and image archives—regardless of the underlying hardware or hypervisor. This includes the ability to perform unlimited physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) workload migrations, as well as physical- to-physical (P2P) migrations across heterogeneous hardware and virtual-to-

virtual (V2V) migrations across hypervisor platforms.

Leverage image capture and deployment features to enable long-distance migrations of Windows workloads when a direct network connection between source and target environments is not available.

Reduce the risks of migrating and relocating workloads by moving workloads across local or wide area networks, performing live tests without taking your production servers offline, and then synchronizing only the incremental changes from source to target before bringing the new virtual target online.

Improve data center planning and execution by using the advanced PlateSpin planning tools to carefully assess, analyze and test your data center consolidation hardware migration initiatives.

Gain complete control over your multi-platform environment by moving and rebalancing workloads between physical and virtual hosts. With PlateSpin, migrating, reconfiguring, relocating and optimizing workloads become simple drag-and-drop operation from a centralized console.

All of the advanced capabilities in the full version of PlateSpin Migrate are logical extensions of the more basic features found in the versions that are available with Dell servers. As a result, moving to the full version is a simple and natural process that won’t cause disruptions or create a large, new learning curve for your IT staff.

Getting Started with PlateSpin Migrate for Dell

The two versions of PlateSpin Migrate for Dell that ship with Dell servers are ready to help you migrate physical and virtual work-loads to your new Dell hardware quickly and efficiently—and provide a smooth transition

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to all the anywhere-to-anywhere migration benefits of the full version of PlateSpin Migrate. Getting started is easy:

Contact your Dell sales representative for more details on qualified servers.

Ask your Dell sales representative to include this offer with your next Dell server purchase.

Visit www.platespin.com/downloads/ dellv2p to download the free PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack) software. You will need your Dell server activation code to download the software.

Visit www.platespin.com/downloads/dellp2v to purchase the PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-Pack) software.

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