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Virtualization: Platespin gets into DRP with Dell

Its been a long time that I covered Platespin, but anyways here it is!

Announced today, PlateSpin Forge consists of a dual-processor Dell server equipped with 2.5TB of SATA RAID storage, VMware ESX Server virtualization, the underlying PlateSpin PowerConvert P2V software, and the PlateSpin Forge user interface. Together, these components can protect up to 25 “workloads,” running either Windows or Linux, within a VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format or Virtual Hard Disk format or on a physical box.

“To us, a workload is a workload,” said Cadman Chui, PlateSpin vice president of marketing. Forge, Chui explains, simply takes an image of the workload and saves it as a virtual machine (VM). Then, on a scheduled basis, Forge takes the incremental changes that have happened on the VM and applies them. How often Forge takes an image of the workload depends on its criticality.

Recovery, meanwhile, can take place directly on the Forge hardware appliance or back on another virtual or physical host once it’s available.


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