50 Migrations in Less Than 24 Hours
Name
Title
Date
Agenda
Barriers to Platform Adoption
PlateSpin Migrate
®
PlateSpin in Action
What’s new?
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Barriers to Platform Adoption
Bringing New Platforms Online
How do I get this stuff
Up and Running?
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Tools: Bare Metal Restore
• Multiple Steps
– Image Capture -> Image Deploy -> System Configuration -> Pray…
• Error Prone
• NOT Cross Platform
• Downtime throughout the process
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Tools: “Free” Migration Tools
• Extra Manual steps
– SysPrep 
• Lack of Network Optimization
• Minimal Error Logging
• Single Platform Support
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PlateSpin Migrate
®
A More Complete Solution
PlateSpin® Migrate
Fully automated migrations over the network.
Physical
Servers
Blade
Servers
Virtual
Hosts
Image
Archives
Workload Decoupled
from Hardware
Decouple workload
from host
infrastructure
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Live peer-to-peer
workload migration
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Migration testing
Sync-up prior
to cut-over
Flexible Migrations
etc...
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Hypervisor agnostic, migrate to ESX, Hyper-V, Xen
Hardware agnostic, migrate to bare metal
Multi-OS support
Migrate over LAN or WAN
Fully Automated Solution
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Accelerate New Platform ROI
Get There Faster
Server Migration projects are time consuming.
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Challenges
Solution
Manual rebuild process
5-7 hrs per server
Which workloads/applications go where?
Single core onto Multi-core?
100% automated
Less than 1 hour migration time
Integrated planning
Hardware independent
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PlateSpin Migrate ROI
200 Server Refresh
With PlateSpin
Migration time:
Migration Time:
7 hours per server avg.
3 hours per server avg.
200 x 7 = 1400 hours
200 x 3 = 600 hours
175 days
3 Concurrent migrations = 200 hours
25 days
8 man months!
1 month!
x $80hr = $16,000
x $80hr = $112,000
License Cost approx. = $50,000
Total Project Cost = $50k + $16k
ROI/Delta = $46,000
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Customer Success - Essent
The Customer
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The leader in the Dutch energy market
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Turnover of EUR 6.4 billion in 2006
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Annual IT budget of EUR 130 million
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12,000 employees and 800+ IT staff
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700 servers and growing 100 per year
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A mix of virtual and physical moves
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Moving from HP to IBM hardware
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The Challenge
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Mandate to shrink 3 datacenters into one
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Wanted to standardize IT infrastructure
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Focus on minimizing risk
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The Solution
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Looked at VMware Converter
initially – no P2P, V2P
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PlateSpin Recon to monitor the
existing estate for new hardware
planning and consolidation
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PlateSpin Migrate for 260
migrations (P2P and P2V) across
sites
New Site
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Results
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“If we hadn’t gone with PlateSpin, it would
have taken a team of 25 half a year to build
all the applications in the new data center, an
estimated cost of over EUR 3 million.
•
With PlateSpin, we were able to migrate all of
our servers in one month with a team of less
than eight people.
•
The PlateSpin solution brings a high return of
investment. In retrospect, after seeing the
time and cost savings, we would have been
willing to pay a lot more for the PlateSpin
solution.”
Marco Spoel, Project Manager, IT
Infrastructure, Essent
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What’s New?
PlateSpin Migrate 9.1
®
Improved Network Efficiency
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Data compression
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Bandwidth throttling
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Migrate workloads in complex network environments
Improved reports
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Share the network with other business applications by
instructing Migrate to limit its bandwidth usage
Network Address Translation (NAT) support
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Save bandwidth (and money) on migrations by compressing
the data before sending it across the network
Get more visibility into migration activities through scheduled
email reports
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Expanded Platform Support
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Operating systems
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Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (SP2 & SP3)
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
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Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 & 5.4
®
GPT support
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Migrate workloads formatted with GPT partitions
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Enhanced VMware Support
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Thin disk provisioning
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Enhanced virtual network adapter support
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Save money on storage by provisioning storage on demand
for the migrated workloads
Benefit from the best-of-breed virtual network adapters for
your migrated workloads
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Learn More
• www.novell.com/products/migrate
Thank you.
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