PlateSpin Products - PowerConvert

Perform anywhere-to-anywhere workload migrations with broad multiplatform support.
Migrate and protect all workloads regardless of hardware, operating system or virtual host.

Today’s data centers are increasingly complex with a mix of different physical and virtual hosts, operating systems and image formats. With unprecedented multiplatform support, PowerConvert provides a single, cost-effective solution for streaming workloads between any host in the network including physical machines, blade infrastructures, virtual hosts and image archives. PowerConvert supports all of the leading virtualization solutions including Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron, VMware and Citrix XenServer, as well as multiple operating systems, hardware configurations and imaging technologies. Easily move workloads between dissimilar hardware models or between different virtual infrastructures.

Rapidly migrate and protect running workloads within a local site or across the wide area network.
Migrate, test and protect workloads across primary and secondary data center sites.

PlateSpin PowerConvert enables enterprises to move and protect workloads locally or across geographically dispersed sites in any direction between physical and virtual infrastructures. PowerConvert’s Live Transfer capability enables users to move workloads across the local or wide area network without taking production servers offline. PowerConvert also enables live testing with no disruption to source systems to ensure that workloads will run as expected in the virtual environment. Once testing is complete, PowerConvert’s Server Sync™ feature briefly shuts down the source to perform a final synchronization to the target virtual host. In addition to minimizing downtime, Server Sync provides a fast and efficient solution for long-distance migrations by reducing the total volume of data that must be sent across the WAN.

Protect all workloads in the data center with live incremental replication.
Flexible, efficient and cost-effective workload protection and recovery options.

PowerConvert provides a range of workload protection alternatives in a single product for maximum flexibility. Data centers can choose between flexible image backup and hardware-independent restore or consolidated recovery using virtual infrastructure and whole server workload replication. By using virtualization as a recovery platform, organizations can protect a larger share of data center workloads without having to invest in costly duplicate hardware and software. In addition to standard file-based replication, high-speed block-level transfer enables enterprise customers to protect transactional workloads, such as mail and database servers, where point-in-time transactional information, configuration settings and data must be maintained. Efficient incremental transfers ensure that only changes to source data files are replicated to the target environment, minimizing network usage. Enterprises can also augment existing recovery plans with flexible, platform-independent full, incremental and differential images.

Improve the speed and quality of enterprise data center initiatives with integrated planning and execution.
Automated planning, migration and testing reduce business risk and ensure a rapid return on investment.

Together, PlateSpin PowerConvert and PowerRecon provide the only solution that automates the assessment, planning, testing and migration phases of a successful data center initiative. This end-to-end solution reduces overall project time, lowers risk and increases the accuracy of the result. PowerRecon allows organizations to assess, analyze and create optimal plans for server consolidation and disaster recovery. Accelerate data center initiatives by implementing PowerRecon plans using PlateSpin PowerConvert to stream workloads into physical and virtual environments. Consolidate and protect server workloads to virtual machine and blade infrastructures and maximize consolidation ratios by leveraging intelligent workload-based resource configuration. Minimize resource contention and the overhead of ongoing migration by optimally balancing workloads across target servers.

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.
Products PlateSpin Forge PowerConvert Overview Uses of PowerConvert Features System Requirements Packaging Options Feature Request PowerRecon	Uses of PowerConvert Perform anywhere-to-anywhere workload migrations with broad multiplatform support. Migrate and protect all workloads regardless of hardware, operating system or virtual host. Today’s data centers are increasingly complex with a mix of different physical and virtual hosts, operating systems and image formats. With unprecedented multiplatform support, PowerConvert provides a single, cost-effective solution for streaming workloads between any host in the network including physical machines, blade infrastructures, virtual hosts and image archives. PowerConvert supports all of the leading virtualization solutions including Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron, VMware and Citrix XenServer, as well as multiple operating systems, hardware configurations and imaging technologies. Easily move workloads between dissimilar hardware models or between different virtual infrastructures. Rapidly migrate and protect running workloads within a local site or across the wide area network. Migrate, test and protect workloads across primary and secondary data center sites. PlateSpin PowerConvert enables enterprises to move and protect workloads locally or across geographically dispersed sites in any direction between physical and virtual infrastructures. PowerConvert’s Live Transfer capability enables users to move workloads across the local or wide area network without taking production servers offline. PowerConvert also enables live testing with no disruption to source systems to ensure that workloads will run as expected in the virtual environment. Once testing is complete, PowerConvert’s Server Sync™ feature briefly shuts down the source to perform a final synchronization to the target virtual host. In addition to minimizing downtime, Server Sync provides a fast and efficient solution for long-distance migrations by reducing the total volume of data that must be sent across the WAN. Protect all workloads in the data center with live incremental replication. Flexible, efficient and cost-effective workload protection and recovery options. PowerConvert provides a range of workload protection alternatives in a single product for maximum flexibility. Data centers can choose between flexible image backup and hardware-independent restore or consolidated recovery using virtual infrastructure and whole server workload replication. By using virtualization as a recovery platform, organizations can protect a larger share of data center workloads without having to invest in costly duplicate hardware and software. In addition to standard file-based replication, high-speed block-level transfer enables enterprise customers to protect transactional workloads, such as mail and database servers, where point-in-time transactional information, configuration settings and data must be maintained. Efficient incremental transfers ensure that only changes to source data files are replicated to the target environment, minimizing network usage. Enterprises can also augment existing recovery plans with flexible, platform-independent full, incremental and differential images. Improve the speed and quality of enterprise data center initiatives with integrated planning and execution. Automated planning, migration and testing reduce business risk and ensure a rapid return on investment. Together, PlateSpin PowerConvert and PowerRecon provide the only solution that automates the assessment, planning, testing and migration phases of a successful data center initiative. This end-to-end solution reduces overall project time, lowers risk and increases the accuracy of the result. PowerRecon allows organizations to assess, analyze and create optimal plans for server consolidation and disaster recovery. Accelerate data center initiatives by implementing PowerRecon plans using PlateSpin PowerConvert to stream workloads into physical and virtual environments. Consolidate and protect server workloads to virtual machine and blade infrastructures and maximize consolidation ratios by leveraging intelligent workload-based resource configuration. Minimize resource contention and the overhead of ongoing migration by optimally balancing workloads across target servers.