Serving up mixed data on a plate
Serving up mixed data on a plate
December 9, 2008: New enhancements to Novell's PlateSpin Workload Management solution add capabilities for managing server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in mixed IT environments.
PlateSpin Workload Management is claimed to be the only solution on the market today to support 32-and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server, VMware ESX and ESXi and Xen integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
As data centres increasingly deploy diverse hardware platforms, operating systems and virtualisation technologies in heterogeneous environments, the artificial boundaries between physical and virtual machines are being erased by portable workloads – the combination of an operating system, application and data software independent from the underlying physical or virtual platform.
PlateSpin Workload Management enables data centre administrators to optimise the distribution of workloads to provide the best performance for users and applications across both physical and virtual machines.
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. New features in PlateSpin Migrate include broader hypervisor and platform support and significant security, automation and scalability enhancements.
Similar to PlateSpin Migrate, new features in PlateSpin Protect include broader hypervisor and platform support and significant security, automation and scalability enhancements.
PlateSpin Recon, an updated edition of PowerRecon, is a sophisticated workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that eliminates guesswork and provides data center managers with the intelligence needed to effectively manage and optimize server workloads across physical and virtual environments. New to this release are increased assessment accuracy, the ability to import resource utilization data from other monitoring tools and additional hypervisor and operating system support.
PlateSpin Orchestrate, the evolution of ZENworksOrchestrator, interacts with configuration and storage resource management servers to manage the relationship between physical computer and storage resources. PlateSpin Orchestrate also manages virtual resources, controlling the entire life cycle of each virtual machine. New features in PlateSpin Orchestrate include a powerful, easy-to-use interface and expanded hypervisor and operating system support.
PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin Protect are available now. PlateSpin Orchestrate will be available in the first quarter of 2009.