PlateSpin® Workload Management allows you to profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments. Together, Dell and PlateSpin, a Novell® company, can help you transform your IT environment into a flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center.

PlateSpin Workload Management portfolio for Dell Servers gives Dell customers a powerful data center management platform for Dell’s 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers with support for leading hypervisors. Dell servers provide the optimum performance and stability for business critical applications in the next-generation data center.

• PlateSpin Migrate decouples server workloads from their underlying hardware and enables anywhere-to-anywhere migration over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives. Learn more.
• PlateSpin Protect provides whole workload protection by replicating entire workloads for flexible image back-up and hardware independent restore, as well as consolidated recovery using virtualization as a recovery platform for physical and virtual workloads. Learn more.
• PlateSpin Recon™ is a sophisticated workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that helps eliminate guesswork and can provide data center managers with the intelligence needed to effectively manage and optimize server workloads across physical and virtual environments. Learn more.

PlateSpin Products from Dell

When you purchase a virtualization-optimized server from Dell, you can get a 3-pack of PlateSpin Migrate for Virtual to Physical migrations (V2P 3-pack) at no additional charge.  Dell also offers:

•  PlateSpin Physical to Physical (P2P) Workload Migration on most PowerEdge™ Servers. This P2P software allows you to move the entire OS, application, and services from one physical server to another — even while the server is running.
• PlateSpin Migrate for Physical to Virtual conversions (P2V 5-pack). With PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (P2V 5-pack), you can automate Windows and Linux workload migrations from physical to Dell virtual servers.

PlateSpin Migrate solutions for Dell give you workload portability and migration capabilities for physical and virtual workloads to easily and cost-effectively integrate your new Dell servers into your data center.  Other PlateSpin products are available through Dell, such as PlateSpin Protect, and Recon.

Get Free V2P Migration Tool for Your Dell Servers

PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack) is a powerful workload portability and migration solution from Novell that helps you optimize your data center by migrating up to three virtual server workloads to your Dell physical servers. Order this free tool at the time of purchase of your Dell server. 

With PlateSpin Migrate for Dell (V2P 3-Pack), you can:

• Quickly migrate Windows or Linux workloads from virtual to new "bare metal" Dell servers
• Reconfigure workloads during migration to "right-size" resource allocation

Once you’ve experienced the simple and cost-effective method to migrate virtual server workloads, try the full version of PlateSpin Migrate for anywhere-to-anywhere migration for all your workloads in the Data Center. With PlateSpin Migrate, you can build an agile data center by migrating server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives. PlateSpin Migrate can also remotely decouple workloads from the underlying server hardware and stream them to and from any physical or virtual host – all from a single point of control.

Please contact your Dell Sales Representative for more details and a customized quote on the full version of PlateSpin Migrate.