1. Simplifying your Data Network
Management with PlateSpin
April 5th, 2012
Presenters:
Lubomyr (Lubo) Salamakha, Systems Engineer - NetIQ
Cindy DeHart, Practice Manager, ALI

2. Session Overview
• Introductions & Housekeeping
• Challenges of Data Center
Management
• PlateSpin Technology Overview
• Disaster Recovery
• PlateSpin Forge Demo
• Question & Answers

3. NetIQ/Novell Platinum Partner
Virginia ▲West Virginia ▲ Maryland ▲ Washington DC ▲ North Carolina
 Collaboration, Conferencing & Messaging
 Converged IP networking & telephony
 Network Resource Management solutions
 Wireless & Mobile Workforce solutions
 Data Storage, Archiving & Disaster Recovery
 Network Support & Optimization
 Virtualization
 Data Security
 Managed Services
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4. Data Center Management Challenges

5. What is a Workload?
A workload is an A workload is portable A workload or a
integrated stack of and platform agnostic– collection of
application, middleware, it can run in physical, workloads makes
and operating system virtual or cloud up a business
that accomplishes a computing environments service, which is
computing task what the end user
consumes
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6. PlateSpin Technology ®
Workload Profiling
• Agent-less data collection
• Resource sizing and analysis
Workload Portability
• Move, copy and replicate workloads
• Cross infrastructure boundaries
Disaster Recovery
• Protect workloads into Virtual Machines or Images
• Integrated hardware-independent failback
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7. PlateSpin Recon ®
PlateSpin Recon Enterprise provides physical and virtual infrastructure
analysis, planning, and reporting for data center initiatives.
Workloads Resources
What workloads are How efficiently are Create plans to
What resources
running on those resources assigned to optimize workloads
are in the data center?
resources? workloads? and resources
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8. PlateSpin Migrate ®
With PlateSpin Migrate, you can automatically migrate server
workloads over the network
Physical Blade
Servers Servers
Virtual Image
Hosts Archives
Workload Decoupled
from Hardware
Decouple workload
Live peer-to-peer Sync-up prior
from host Migration testing
workload migration to cut-over
infrastructure
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9. Disaster Recovery

10. Disaster Recovery
• A DISASTER is an unavoidable catastrophe that occurs
unexpectedly
• RECOVERY is going from a full disaster to full
production again
 Natural Disaster
 User Error
 Equipment Failure
 Power Failure
 etc…
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11. Define Your Objectives
• Time between declaration and service
Recovery Time availability
Objective (RTO) • Time to restore services to useable state
Recovery Point • Data in system lost at disaster time
Objective (RPO) • Amount of data entered since last backup
Test Time • Time required to test recovery plans
Objective (TTO) • Resources used for testing
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12. Static Back-up
Focus is on protecting data
o Tape back-up
o Imaging
Poor performance
o Slow RTO, RPO (days)
Hidden costs
o How do we get the data back
in to a useable state?
o How long to rebuild the server?
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13. Mirrored Replication
Focus is on protecting application
o Local cluster
o Duplicate hot site
o Like for like infrastructure
High performance, but at what price?
o Near Zero RTO, RPO
High cost
o Duplicate infrastructure
o Management complexity
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14. Bridging the Gap
Completing your DR architecture
Duplication Backup
• Fast RTO and RPO • Slow RTO and RPO
• Duplicate Resources • Over Commitment of
• Costly and Complex Recovery Resources
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15. PlateSpin Protect ®
PlateSpin Protect enables whole-workload replication of server
workloads.
Physical Virtual
Servers Hosts
Image
Blade Archives
Servers
Workload Decoupled
from Hardware
Backup to
Incremental One-click
Flexible Images or Easy to test
replication failover
Virtual Machines
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16. PlateSpin Forge ®
World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with embedded virtualization
Protects up to 25 workloads out of the box
Plug In and Protect DR Solution for : PlateSpin Forge Includes:
• Medium enterprises • Storage
• Branch or field use for large enterprises • Replication software
• Hosted recovery • Remote management interface
• Hypervisor
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17. Special Incentives for Webinar
Attendees
Act within next 60 days to receive:
 Special product discounts available
 Special rates for project-based ALI services
Call Cindy for more details!
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18. ALI Consulting & Deployment Services
Highly experienced advisors with diverse & practical technical
experience
• Proactive strategy
• Clear roadmap for deployment
• Value driven project analysis
• Limits burden on existing staff
Project &
Consultative
Resource Deployment • Saves IT budget
Assessment
Planning
• Speeds time to deployment
• Priority access to Novell as
needed
• Option for lab testing
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19. Questions
Cindy DeHart Don’t forget! Click the
Practice Manager survey link in the Chat
cindy@ali-inc.com window to access the
540.443.3392 survey so we can send
you your Starbucks Card!
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