The premier tool for workload management 8257 platespin recon 3. Server consolidation and data center consolidation suse. Platespin, a recent acquisition of novell recently announced powerconvert 7. Peertopeer workload synchronization p2v, v2v, p2p, v2p. Mondorescue whilst primarily a backuprestore utility it lends itself extremely well to p2pp2v migrations. In details, this means that platespin migrate now can apply its live transfer and live server sync technologies to linux workloads. A great plus is the p2 image 2v option, which reduces time spend on retries. Their main product, powerconvert, reminds me a little tiny bit of ardence citrix provisioning server. Windows p2v conversions with platespin powerconvert platespins powerconvert program allows you to convert physical machines to virtual ones across different platforms.
I find transmission comes default with ubuntu the best for linux. Platespin ulc, a novellr company, has launched platespin powerconvertr version 7. Reinstalling and configuring applications and patches is tedious. Federico kereki you can find linux clients for several filesharing networks. Live peertopeer and offline workload portability support p2p, p2v, v2p, v2v, including workload synchronization with server sync. Live peertopeer and offline workload portability support p2p, p2v. Platespin migrate a software tool for physicaltovirtual and virtualtophysical conversion. The following software products claim to do p2v, but in fact do not seem to support linux, so ymmv. This is mostly because we havent figured out a good way in the supplicant to distinguish between normal sta and p2pclient yet. Micro focus is a global software company with 40 years of. The red hat customer portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your red hat subscription. Using platespin powerconvert to perform windowstovirtual. Very easytouse and does not require any modifications in the settings to work. Virtuozzo contains automatic p2v and v2p migration tools.
Platespin migrate enables you to complete cloud and data center transformation. Put simply, peertopeer computing is the sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems. Platespin, since march 2008 a novell company, today announced the launch of platespin powerconvert version 7. Mve2, expert of the year 20172011, scribe 20162012, author of the year 20186,202012 vmware vexpert 20192011 30 years of experience. If youre just doing p2v im not sure that making the investment in platespin is worth it. Using this information, essent created a detailed migration plan and deployed platespin migrate to perform the p2p and p2v migrations. Platespin migrate offers broad support for 32 and 64bit windows and linux operating systems.
During the course of operations, your software requirements can change. Accelerating server hardware upgrades with platespin migrate p2p. Introduction to linux a hands on guide this guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Platespin migrate supports the migration of the following windows and linux. Supported source and target platforms for platespin. In this tip, an expert explains how to convert a windows server 2003 physical machine to a xenserver virtual one. Accelerating server hardware upgrades with platespin migrate p2p ari.
The focus, though, is not so much on the one time migrations. Consolidation assessments and data center operations 8258 platespin protect 10. Still, the process is pretty simple and works reliably for me. It can be controlled through a user interface provided by one of many separate frontends, including a web interface, telnet interface. If you need to also do p2p and v2p and v2v, then platepsin is the better choice.
Physical 2 virtual vm migration using plate spin migrate. Using platespin migrate, we were able to complete 61 migrations within the targeted migration windows, saving an average of four hours migration time per server. Platespin protect recovery software, and platespin forge. P2v, v2v and p2p migrations using vmware converter and platespin suite. Set up a p2p job, using a real linux target booted via ramdisk. Novell have a product called platespin powerconvert that will do p2p, p2v and v2p reliably across a very wide range of platforms and operating systems. Sometimes old servers have some services and software that were needed at one point, but have been replaced. Platespin migrates x2p device driver database contains device drivers that your target requires for the. Vmware converter is the free utility from vmware which helps to convert your windows and linux based physical machines and thirdparty image formats such as backup images, also other virtual machines to vmware virtual machines. Its expensive and some of the license options is limited in time and number of conversions. Ubuntu studio which is a linux distribution made for musicians.
Ive looked at platespin and think that its a fine product. Additional options for the virsh migrate command red hat enterprise linux 6 red hat customer portal. Configuring migration to a physical target p2p, v2p platespin. This approach enables enterprises to span infrastructure boundaries to help. Accelerating server hardware upgrades with platespin. Vhdtool can sometimes wrap your binary image with information that linux may not 100% understand. Using platespin, tar, or another filebased process skips all the blank space on the disk. For the linux platform, platespin migrate the following portability features.
Platespin migrate enables server workload migration across heterogeneous platforms. How to migrate linux servers part 1 system preparation. Powercovert is sort of the ultimate migration conversion tool for p2v, v2p, v2v, and p2p migrations. The new wave of releases introduces support for linux guest operating systems, which is available for p2v, v2v and p2p migrations. Taking into account how many clients are available for each, the current top three peertopeer p2p networks are edonkey2000, fasttrack derived from kazaa, and gnutella. Whats the best linux p2p program but i have been using xandros for four months now.
How atos uses platespin migrate may 22, 2019 vivit worldwide. More flexible disaster recovery using workload protection 8259. Novell touts server management on windows, linux the. Performing windowstovirtual conversions into virtual iron servers 3 copy the iso image into either the optvirtualironnbd directory for a linux virtualization manager or the c.
Sanxfer by inquinox is an automated server and data migration tool for p2v, v2p, and p2p with complete server and storage hardware independence. Platespin is great for doing p2v on the same lan segment as the console of the esx is on. Linux specify the root or rootlevel user name and a valid password. Red hat product security center red hat customer portal. It supports all enhancements for the platespin migrate 2019. For clusters, platespin migrate provides driverless blockbased transfer and driverbased. Suse studio is a linux software appliance creation tool where the users can. Novell announces platespin migrate 9 protect 10 forge. Platespin migrate is an example of a fully automated migration tool for p2v and v2p, v2v or p2p. Vmware vcenter converter converts local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any downtime. Support for ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, and nss oes 2 workloads linux file systems. Mldonkey is an open source, multiprotocol, peertopeer file sharing application that runs as a backend server application on many platforms. Like there are applications designed for windows xp or windows vista, some linux applications are compiled for ubuntu or suse, and these dont always work on the other distributions. Here are some desktop applications that allow you to become a fullfledged file sharer.
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