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PlateSpin Migrate to Support Solaris 10

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Novell has announced the addition of physical-to-virtual migration support for Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) in the latest version of PlateSpin Migrate, workload management product that enables data center managers to move workloads anywhere to anywhere: between physical, image, virtual and cloud environments.

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The latest version of PlateSpin Migrate significantly expands the already broad list of platforms supported for physical to virtual migration, by adding support for the recently released SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 from Novell to the existing support for prior versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise.

PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 also adds support for Windows 2008 and Windows Vista. PlateSpin Migrate now offers the industry’s broadest support for operating systems, hypervisors and hardware platforms in the heterogeneous data center.

“We expect PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 to make it even easier for customers to take advantage of the power and versatility of Solaris Containers,” said Jim McHugh, vice president of Data Center Software Marketing at Sun. “Using PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 to perform physical-to-virtual migration will also help minimize the risk of introducing errors into new configurations and speed the completion of virtualization projects.”

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PlateSpin Migrate offers support for more configuration options for migrating business-critical workloads than any other solution on the market today. As customers increasingly adopt virtualization for production servers, IT managers need a more powerful and reliable migration tool that minimizes server downtime and maximizes the success of key data center initiatives, such as server consolidation and data center relocation.

“PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 is the first product on the market to provide the convenience and automation of physical-to-virtual migrations to the Solaris community,” said Greg Cullen, regional director for PlateSpin at Novell Asia Pacific.

“It’s also the first migration product to support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. PlateSpin Migrate customers can further reduce cost and complexity in their data centers by consolidating and virtualizing servers, within a single data center or between geographically-dispersed sites, across the broadest range of operating systems, hypervisors and hardware,” added Cullen.

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PlateSpin Migrate is an integral component of Novell’s PlateSpin Workload Management solutions, which also includes PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Orchestrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge.

PlateSpin Workload Management solutions enable customers to profile, migrate, manage and protect server workloads. Only PlateSpin Workload Management supports the Solaris OS, 32-and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including VMware ESX and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with integrated Xen.

With PlateSpin Workload Management solutions, customers can consolidate and migrate servers across multiple data center locations, balance workloads between physical servers and virtual machines, and protect a larger number of servers with faster recovery using virtualization.

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