“Plug In and Protect” Physical and Virtual Server Workloads
 
PlateSpin Forge is a consolidated recovery hardware appliance that protects both physical and virtual server workloads using embedded virtualization technology. In the event of a production server outage or disaster, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. 

Designed to protect between 10 and 25 workloads, PlateSpin Forge ships with all storage, applications and virtualization technology pre-packaged and ready to go. Organizations can also opt to leverage existing SAN storage for the recovery environment. For larger implementations, multiple PlateSpin Forge appliances can be deployed and centrally managed through a “single pane of glass” management console. 

By dramatically reducing the time and specialized technical resources required to plan, provision, deploy and test a recovery environment, PlateSpin Forge puts workload protection and recovery within reach for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as departments and branch offices within larger enterprises. With PlateSpin Forge, organizations can begin reliably protecting their physical and virtual workloads in a matter of hours as opposed to months.
 
The Value Proposition
• Recover multiple workloads using a single recovery appliance
• Consolidate workloads for a 10 to 1 or 25 to 1 workload protection ratio
• Power on recovery workloads with a single click
• Rapidly restore workloads to the same or different hardware
• Quickly run DR “fire drills” to test restore times and disaster readiness
• Easily monitor and report on key replication and recovery functions
• Improve RTO and RPO without costly hardware/software redundancy
• Single pane of glass visibility across multiple appliances

Enterprise Workload Protection and Recovery

With PlateSpin Protect, you can safeguard physical and virtual server workloads for a fraction of the cost of traditional disaster recovery options. And you can recover lost data more rapidly and with greater ease.

PlateSpin Protect Features:

Cost-Effective Consolidated Backup and Recovery
Forget expensive 1 to 1 hardware and software redundancy. Instead, you can consolidate multiple physical and virtual server workloads onto a single virtualized recovery environment. With its incremental workload replication and consolidated recovery with a high workload protection ratio, PlateSpin Protect lets you cost-effectively extend recovery capabilities to servers that have commonly been left under-insured.

Easy Test Recovery
Quickly test recovery plans without disruption to the backup process. You can easily test and then audit your disaster recovery procedures.
 
One-Click Failover
Recover workloads quickly by booting up a replicated copy on the virtual recovery server.
 
Secure Conversions
Provide state-of-the-art protection for high-security data center environments with 128-bit AES encryption and support for end-to-end SSL.
 
PlateSpin Flexible Images
Reduce recovery costs by maintaining a library of hardware independent images. These images can be deployed to any hardware make or model to recover the workload. This option is ideal for offsite hosted recovery where similar hardware is not always available or when the recovery process needs to be tested on a regular basis.
 
You can even recover individual files or folders from your backup images.

Multi-platform Workload Protection
Take advantage of support for virtualization solutions such as VMware ESX & ESXi and Microsoft Virtual Server, as well as multiple operating systems, hardware configurations and imaging technologies.
 
Multiple Concurrent Replications
Provide reliable and efficient replication for workload protection initiatives. PlateSpin Protect enables multiple concurrent workload replications for maximum efficiency and scalability.

Block and File Replication
Choose the best replication method for different situations. Block-level replication enables the protection of transactional workloads, such as mail servers and database servers. With block-level transfer, only the portion of a file that has changed is replicated, making it ideal for incrementally synchronizing large database servers and making offsite data backups more efficient. File-based replication provides a fast and efficient solution for protecting more static workloads while maintaining server uptime.
 
Server Sync
Reduce the risks associated with workload relocation projects like server consolidation and data center relocation. Server Sync performs an initial transfer to the target site or host, tests the workload in the new location while continuing to run the source and then performs a final sync before cutting over the workload. Server Sync can also accelerate workload migrations over wide area networks by eliminating the need for a second full system replication after testing.
 
Automatic Discovery
Automatically discover existing physical or virtual machines throughout the network for complete visibility into the data center landscape, including hardware, operating systems, services and application inventory. This feature allows you to quickly identify workloads that need to be protected using discovered workload details.
 
Central Management Console
Manage your protection environment through a single secure console, whether you are protecting workloads via images or replicating them to standby virtual machines. This management console connects to the management server over standard web protocols, making it easy to use across multiple data center sites and firewalls.

On-the-Fly Configuration
Reconfigure and right-size CPU, disk, memory and network resources on the fly to adjust to changing workloads and target recovery machine resources. Change critical parameters on restore and right-size the target recovery server to match workload demands.
 
Role-Based Access
Take advantage of a wide range of security features, including user authentication, authorization and logging. You can then effectively manage and monitor user activities and assign the right privileges to the right users.

Cohesive Planning and Execution
Use PlateSpin Protect with PlateSpin Recon to automate the assessment, planning, testing and migration phases of a successful disaster recovery initiative

Migrate and Optimize Server Workloads
 
Most data centers have a diverse mix of hardware platforms, operating systems and virtualization technologies. To be successful, all of these elements must work together to drive operational efficiency, agility and business growth. Designed to handle the realities of these complex mixed environments, PlateSpin Migrate offers the features and capabilities you need to reduce costs, complexity and risk in your data center—and create a more unified approach for solving crucial migration and portability challenges.
 
PlateSpin Migrate Features:

Multi-platform Workload Migration
Take advantage of full support for all of the leading virtualization solutions, including VMware and ESX and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise with Xen, Virtual Iron, and Citrix XenServer. PlateSpin Migrate also supports multiple operating systems, hardware configurations and imaging technologies. PlateSpin Migrate automatically configures your server workloads to operate on the target environment. This includes making all of the necessary driver, kernel and configuration changes.

Support for 64-Bit Windows and Linux Workloads
Migrate critical 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux workloads across infrastructure boundaries. PlateSpin Migrate provides full support for Windows environments including 64-bit Windows 2003 and Windows XP workloads. PlateSpin Migrate also provides 64-bit functionality for both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Live Transfer
Enable the migration or image capture of active Windows servers without taking the source servers offline or having to reboot. Unlike snapshot-based replication, Live Transfer makes sure data changes that take place during a migration are moved as well, maintaining workload consistency.
 
Block-Level and File Replication
Enable the movement of highly transactional workloads such as mail servers and database servers with block-level replication. With block-level transfer, only the portion of a file that has changed is replicated. This is ideal for synchronizing large database servers and enabling efficient offsite data transfers. For more static workloads, file-based replication provides fast, efficient and cost-effective workload migration while maintaining server uptime.

Server Sync
Reduce the risks of workload relocation projects like server consolidation and data center relocation. Server Sync performs an initial transfer to the target site or host, tests the workload in the new location while continuing to run the source. It then performs a final sync before cutting over the workload. Server Sync can also speed up workload migrations over wide area networks by eliminating the need for a second full system replication after testing.
 
Migration Speed and Scalability
Perform up to 40 simultaneous workload migrations on high-performance hardware to dramatically reduce the time required to complete data center tasks such as server consolidation or hardware migration.

Automatic Discovery
Automatically discover existing physical or virtual machines throughout the network for complete visibility into hardware, operating systems, services and application inventory.

Task-Based Wizards/Drag-and-Drop Interface
Reduce learning curves and simplify workload migration with the PlateSpin Migrate drag-and-drop interface and intuitive built-in workflows. Task-based wizards for common actions and advanced job setups make the process of configuring migration jobs and moving, copying and deploying workloads easier and more reliable.
 
On-the-Fly Configuration
Reconfigure and right-size CPU, disk, memory and network resources on the fly to adjust to changing workload needs and target machine resources.
 
Industry-Leading Automation
Speed up workload migration tasks and reduce manual errors with the highest level of automation available for workload planning, testing and migration. Automate post-migration tasks by using custom batch files or user-defined scripts to minimize manual intervention and free up valuable IT resources for other tasks.
 
Multiple Image Support
Reuse and redeploy PlateSpin Flexible Images or use existing third-party image inventories over and over, across different hardware for quick conversion deployment. With PlateSpin Migrate, you can capture the image once and then reuse it repeatedly.

Remote Control
Control all of your migrations from a single console—without worrying about agents, boot CDs or physical contact with source or target machines. This will save you the time and costs associated with having IT staff onsite at remote locations.

Role-Based Access
Take advantage of a range of security features, including user authentication, authorization and logging. These features let system administrators effectively manage and monitor user activities and assign the right privileges to the right users.
 
Cohesive Planning and Execution
Use PlateSpin Migrate with PlateSpin Recon to automate the assessment, planning, testing and migration phases of a successful data center initiative.