New PlateSpin Migrate Version To Support Solaris 10

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, a workload management product that enables data centre managers to move workloads anywhere to anywhere: between physical, image, virtual and cloud environments.

PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 is a workload migration product offering support for Solaris Containers, giving customers the ability to migrate workloads from physical to virtual environments. The latest version of PlateSpin Migrate expands the 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 8.1 makes it easy to migrate workloads between physical servers, image archives and virtual hosts. PlateSpin Migrate also offers performance improvements for business-critical workload migrations, making increased use of block-based transfer technology, which transfers only the portion of the file that has changed. This limits the amount of downtime during the migration process, and improves migration performance, especially over WAN connections.

Availability and Pricing

PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 is available later this month. The Windows/ Linux version is priced at $289 for a workload licence. PlateSpin Migrate for UNIX is priced at $1,495 for a one-time licence.