PlateSpin Assists In Upgrading To VMware Infrastructure 3 With Near-Zero Downtime
Wednesday, 23 August 2006 by Michel Roth
PlateSpin announced the release of PowerConvert 6.0 with full support for VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware’s next-generation virtual infrastructure product. PlateSpin PowerConvert’s newest live conversion feature helps data centers make a seamless transition from VMware ESX Server 2.5 to the new VMware Infrastructure 3 with minimal interruption.

PlateSpin PowerConvert provides a completely automated software solution that enables customers to stream servers across physical, virtual, blade and image-based infrastructures in any direction. This additional feature helps IT Managers migrate virtual machines from VMware ESX Server 2.5 or VMware Server environments by streaming them to VMware Infrastructure 3 while the virtual machine is running. PlateSpin PowerConvert automates the entire process, eliminating all manual effort including VMware tools updates, virtual hardware upgrades and configuring virtual machine settings specific to VMware Infrastructure 3.

PlateSpin PowerConvert 6.0 features the following:

• Drag-and-drop virtual machines from VMware ESX Server 2.5 and VMware Server into VMware Infrastructure 3
• For production virtual machines running Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows XP operating systems, the virtual machine remains live as its OS, applications and data are migrated to new VMware Infrastructure 3 hosts with only a brief (one- to five-minute) interruption
• Completely automate the Discover, Configure and Convert functionality
• Optionally reconfigure CPU, disk, network and memory resources on the new target virtual machine
• Upgrade multiple virtual machines simultaneously onto new VMware Infrastructure 3 hosts

Pricing and Availability
PlateSpin PowerConvert 6.0 will be generally available August 4 to help users upgrade from VMware ESX Server 2.5 to VMware Infrastructure 3. PlateSpin PowerConvert allows users to move a virtual machine from VMware ESX 2.5 to VMware Infrastructure 3 with minimal downtime using PowerConvert's new live transfer feature. Pricing starts at $45 per conversion for the VMware ESX 2 to VMware Infrastructure 3 upgrade package and includes the live transfer functionality.

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