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Alain Salesse Solutions Architect April 2017

PlateSpin Enterprise Migration Solution Overview

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•  Introduction to workload migration • Workload migration challenges • The PlateSpin approach to migration • Licensing & Roadmap • Summary

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Introduction to Workload Migration

• A workload is the operating system, applications, data and configuration that reside on a physical server or virtual machine.

• A workload is a single entity that is portable between physical, virtual and cloud platforms

What is a Workload?

Data

Applications

Operating System

Workload

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What is PlateSpin Workload Migration?

What is

Moving an entire workload from one platform to another, i.e. •  Physical to Virtual (P2V) •  Physical to Cloud (P2C) •  Physical to Physical (P2P) •  Virtual to Virtual (V2V) •  Virtual to Cloud (V2C) •  Anywhere to anywhere (X2X)

What it isn’t

Anything else, for example: •  Migrating applications to another OS

(see Micro Focus Desktop Containers) •  Operating System upgrades •  Application upgrades •  Data migrations •  SAN migrations •  Hypervisor upgrades (in-situ)

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Workload Migration Primary Use Cases

Refresh & Consolidation

Hardware Refresh •  Upgrading to new server models •  Switching to new server vendor Server Virtualization & Consolidation •  Converting physical servers to virtual

machines •  Combining multiple workloads on a

single virtual host

Data Centre Transformation

Virtual-to-Virtual Migrations •  Switching virtualization platforms •  Hypervisor upgrades with new hardware Cloud Migrations •  Public cloud such as Azure and AWS •  Adopting or switching service providers •  Private/hybrid cloud deployment

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Workload Migration Secondary Use Cases

Sandbox Testing

•  Create exact replicas of production services for testing purposes

•  Often more realistic than dev/test environments

•  Safely test the effects of application updates, OS patches and configuration changes before applying them to production systems

Application Staging

•  Stage business services through test, pre-production and production environments

•  Build once, test many times

•  Reduce the risks associated with manual build processes

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Workload Migration Challenges

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The Problem With Free Migration Tools

For the business

•  Disruptive •  Source application is usually

down for the entire replication •  May be costly to the business

•  Risky •  No ability to test the new system

prior to cutover •  One-way process – no way to fall

back

For IT

•  High-effort •  Manual re-configuration, e.g.

NICs, tools, services etc. •  Poor scalability and resilience

•  Complex •  Limited platform support,

particularly for Linux •  Multiple tools leads to errors and

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Minimise Downtime

•  Businesses are more reliant than ever on IT systems

•  Need to migrate with near-zero downtime at a time that suits the business “You don’t need to take your production server offline for the whole of the migration process. It’s only offline for a few minutes during the final update.” Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit

“The increased automation during the actual migration phases has enabled us to cut our typical migration window in half, which means a dramatic reduction in service downtime for our customers.” US Signal

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Minimise Risk

•  The business demands that proposed changes will not affect its operations

•  Need to test business services prior to cutover “PlateSpin Migrate allowed us to run extensive testing and perform a dry-run before we undertook the actual migrations. As a result, nothing was left to chance: we knew exactly what was going to happen and were not disappointed.” CSH Surrey

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Minimise Time and Effort •  Migration projects are often outsourced

to the lowest bidder •  Need for automation & predictable

costs “We saved an average of four hours’ migration time per server. Without PlateSpin Migrate, meeting this deadline would simply have been too challenging.” Atos “With no requirement to watch over the migration, we probably save 80% in resource time.” Vodacom

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Minimise Complexity

•  Standardisation reduces cost and implementation time

•  Need a single solution that supports every migration scenario: Windows & Linux, physical, virtual and cloud

“The standardized approach means that the risk of data loss and unplanned downtime is practically eliminated—giving customers confidence that their business-critical systems remain safe as they move into the cloud.” Essent

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Cloud Adoption is Continuing to Increase

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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2016 Predictions —Mastering the Raw Material of Digital Transformation Gartner Market Insight: Cloud Computing's Drive to Digital Business Creates Opportunities for Providers

40%

Annual growth rate of IaaS since 2011

Enterprise-class businesses subscribed

to more than 10 different public cloud

services by 2017

60%

IT spend on cloud-based

architectures by 2018

50%

•  Everything is bigger •  A project can contain tens of thousands of workloads •  An application may comprise hundreds workloads •  Workloads themselves are bigger, with TBs of data •  Projects are multi-phase •  Planning becomes more important than ever

•  The business takes priority •  Need to migrate applications, not individual workloads •  Near-zero downtime becomes even more critical •  Need for more and more flexible testing

Migration Projects are Changing

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Maximise Scalability

Large-scale migration projects magnify all of these challenges as well as introducing others •  Even more automation

•  Bulk configuration •  “Zero-touch” migrations

•  Better alignment with the business •  Better project planning •  Multi-phase service testing •  Stakeholder communication

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Minimise Cost, Maximise Opportunity

“The PlateSpin solution saved Essent about €2 million for the data centre consolidation project alone.” Essent “Faster migrations naturally translate into lower costs for our customers. We have strengthened the value proposition of our cloud and managed services offerings—enabling us to capture valuable new opportunities and grow the business.” Atos

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The PlateSpin Approach

PlateSpin: The Enterprise-Grade Migration Solution

PlateSpin is a highly scalable migration solution for transforming data centres that covers both planning and execution, and that focuses both on the needs of IT and the business

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PlateSpin Minimises Downtime and Risk

1Initial Workload Copy

2 Test & Verify

users

testers

3 Incremental Sync users

4 Cutover users

users

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Project Management Approach to Migration

1. Discover • Rapidly discover source workloads and target environments

CUSTOMER A

New target data centres CUSTOMER B

CUSTOMER C

2. Plan • Plan the transition of data centers from their current state to a desired future state

• Bulk search and edit forms for rapid planning • Stakeholder dashboard

3. Execute • Full or semi automated, or manual execution

• Highly scalable

Data Centre Transformation

C C C

C C C

A B C

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Delivers industry-leading scalability and automation Improves business alignment and communication

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PlateSpin Topology

Migration Servers

Project Managers & Architects

Mass migrations

Transformation Server

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Migration Specialists

Stakeholders & Customers

Ø  Organization Ø  Project

Ø  Wave Ø  Batch

-  Workload 1 -  Workload 2 -  Workload 3

Dashboard Bulk Planning

• Automatically discover source environments in minutes via subnet search

• Discover target VMware infrastructure: networks, data stores, resource pools etc.

• Or bulk import via spreadsheet

• No need to share passwords

1. Discover

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• Powerful bulk search & edit widgets for fast & efficient planning

• Define the future state of each workload

• Organise workloads into waves and batches

2. Plan

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Transformation Types and Roles

• Workload Migration •  Physical to Virtual •  Virtual to Virtual •  Virtual to Physical •  Physical to Physical •  V and P to Cloud

•  Lift and Shift • Decommission • Virtual file bulk move

• Administrator • Project Manager • Project Architect • Migration Specialist • Dashboard Viewer

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• Migration Specialists execute individual migrations as planned

• Fully automated for vSphere*

• Track project progress via dashboard

* More to follow

3. Execute

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PlateSpin Migration Overview

•  Streams Windows and Linux workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual servers and the cloud

•  Hardware independent, “bare-metal” approach. No access required to source hypervisor

•  Industry-leading levels of automation

•  Highly resilient and scalable

•  Near-zero downtime

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Industry-leading Automation Capabilities

Drivers & OS kernel

NICs

VM creation

Source & target end states

CPU Memory

Hypervisor tools

Hypervisor files

Host name & IP

Services before/after

Post actions

Volumes

Incremental replication

Workload testing

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CLI

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Licensing and Roadmap

PlateSpin Licensing

Transformation Manager One license for each device for which

planning is to be performed One license per workload, independent of hardware, operating system or processor/

cores

Migrate

Priority Maintenance 24 x 7 global technical support, software updates and patches

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Perpetual Unlimited migrations per workload. Maintenance

not included

Project 1 migration per workload.

License valid 2 years from purchase.

Maintenance included

Project License valid 2 years from purchase.

Maintenance included

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https://www.microfocus.com/media/white-paper/understanding_platespin_server_migration_licensing_wp.pdf

What’s New in PlateSpin Migrate 12.2 (current) •  Automated migrations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) •  Automated migrations to VMware vCloud Director •  “Zero-touch” migrations to VMware via integration with PTM •  Complete Microsoft Azure migration coverage including:

•  Incremental replication support for Azure migration •  PlateSpin Migrate Server VM published on Azure Marketplace •  Support for migration to Azure over internet without VPN

•  Support for VMware vSAN and Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel •  Currency Updates

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Strategic Direction: Cloud & Automation

Full support for Azure &

vCloud Director

Initial support for AWS

Full support for major cloud platforms

Automated migrations & discovery for

vSphere

Enterprise Migration Platform

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Migrate

Transformation Manager

Application Dependency Mapping

Automated migrations

for other platforms

Full support for AWS

Initial support for OpenStack &

SoftLayer

Available now In development or planning

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Summary

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Benefits of PlateSpin Execution Approach

Designed to minimise

Risk Test target systems as often as you wish prior to cutover

Time Migrate multiple workloads simultaneously quickly and reliably

Effort High levels of automation significantly reduce manual effort

Complexity One toolset for any migration: Windows and Linux, anywhere to anywhere

Downtime Incremental replication keeps cutover times to a minimum

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Benefits of PlateSpin Planning Approach

•  Industry-leading levels of scalability and automation

•  Significantly reduce resource requirements

•  Improve project predictability •  Improve business

communication & alignment •  Up to 50% faster time-to-value N

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Competing solutions

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Faster Time-To-Value

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• Highest levels of scalability and automation • Puts workload testing at the heart of its solution • Unique planning and execution capability • Caters for the different needs of business and IT • The most mature migration solution for Linux workloads

• The only enterprise-grade workload migration solution

What Makes PlateSpin Different?

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Migrate Trial Download and Evaluation Guide

www.netiq.com/products/migrate/technical-info

White Papers https://www.microfocus.com/campaign/server-migration/

PTM Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Ic5OySo1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNEXOmKc_U

Customer References https://www.netiq.com/success/#platespinmigrate

PlateSpin Documentation www.netiq.com/documentation

Split / Manage License Keys www.platespin.com/entitlementmgr

Technical Support (available office hours during evaluation)

www.netiq.com/customercenter support@platespin.com +420 28 408 4051 / +1 800 858 4000

PlateSpin Resources

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