PlateSpin Migrate
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50 Migrations in less than 24 hours
Jason Dea – Product Marketing Manager, Novell
Session Overview
Barriers to Platform Adoption
PlateSpin Migrate
Accelerate ROI
PlateSpin in Action - Essent®
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Who cares?
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Server Migration in the Real World
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“The PlateSpin solution from Novell saved Essent about €2
million for the data centre consolidation project alone”
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"Using PlateSpin we were able to complete 61 migrations within
the targeted migration windows, saving an average of 4 hours
migration time per server.“
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Joris Haverkort, Product Manager at Atos Origin Netherlands
"The ability to perform the migrations remotely and over the WAN
with no need to be physically in contact with the source and
target servers saved us weeks if not months of work.“
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Marco Spoel, Project Manager, IT Infrastructure, Essent
Neil Brindley, Senior Windows Systems Engineer, Midrange Services, AXA
Tech Asia Pacific
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Barriers to Platform Adoption:
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Manual Rip and Replace
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…
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Error Prone
NOT Cross Platform
Downtime throughout the process
Labor Intensive
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Tools:
Pre-Staging + Replication
• Multiple Steps
– Configure Identical OS Target -> Data Replication – System State Copy ->
Pray -> Cutover
• Software licensing complexity and cost
• Replication complexity and cost
• Labor Intensive
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Tools:
“Free” Migration tool
• Extra Manual steps
– SysPrep 
• Lack of Network Optimization
• Single Platform Support
• Minimal Error Logging
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Finally a Better Way
PlateSpin Migrate
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PlateSpin® Migrate
With PlateSpin Migrate, you can automatically migrate server
workloads 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
PlateSpin Migrate – Accelerate ROI
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Automated Peer to Peer with
PlateSpin Migrate
etc...
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Direct Peer to Peer
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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Accelerating Adoption with PlateSpin
Migrate
Server Migration project are time consuming.
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Challenges
Solution
Manual rebuild process
5-7 hrs per server (depending on application)
Which workloads/applications go where?
Single core onto Multi-core?
CPU bottle necks, I/O contention, Memory?
100% automated
Live migrations
45 min. to 1 ½ hr migration time
Peer to Peer across the network
Up to 20 migrations per Migrate
server
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Migration Project Cost vs Novell ROI
200 Server Refresh
200 Server Refresh w/Novell
Migration time:
Migration Time:
3 hours per server avg.
200 x 3 = 600 hours
3 Concurrent migrations = 200 hours
25 days
1 month!
x $80hr = $16,000
7 hours per server avg.
200 x 7 = 1400 hours
175 days
8 man months!
x $80hr = $112,000
License Cost approx. = $40,000
Total Project Cost = $40k + $16k
ROI/Delta = $56,000
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Customer Success Case Study
Essent
Case Study
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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Case Study
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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Case Study
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
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New Site
Case Study
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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.
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With PlateSpin, we were able to migrate all of
our servers in one month with a team of less
than eight people.
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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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Thank you!
Jason Dea – jason.dea@novell.com
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