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 Comparison1
 
PlateSpin
Migrate
PlateSpin
Protect
PlateSpin
Protect Enterprise
 
Used for long-term data center initiatives such as server provisioning, ongoing workload management and optimization.
Includes all the features of PlateSpin Migrate plus workload protection and consolidated recovery
Offers the broadest support for all workloads in the data center (includes Block-based transfer for high-transactional environments)
Workload Migration/Protection
Physical server source Migrate to physical server, virtual machine, or image Protect to Image or VM
Virtual machine source Migrate to physical server, virtual machine, or image Protect to Image or VM
Image source Migrate to physical server, virtual machine, or image N/A
Restore options
Restore to virtual machine N/A Yes. Restore target hypervisor does not have to match source hypervisor.
Restore to physical servers N/A Yes. Restore target machine does not have to match source machine make or model.
Replication features
Server Sync (manual incremental replication)
Scheduled incremental replication  
File-based live transfer
Block-based live transfer    
Ideal for…
Stateless (middle-tier applications, presentation servers, web front-ends)
Low transactional (DHCP, infrastructure)
High transactional Using Block-based Transfer (mail servers, databases)    


1 Product packages and features subject to change without notice.
 
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.