1.1 About Workload Portability

PlateSpin Migrate automates the migration of workloads among physical, virtual machine, volume imaging, and cloud. PlateSpin Migrate 12.1 introduces support for migration of workloads to Microsoft Azure.

Figure 1-1 Workload Portability

Table 1-1 Workload Portability Operations

Category of Operation	Migration Infrastructures
Workload Portability: Peer-to-peer	Physical to Virtual (P2V) Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Virtual to Physical (V2P) Physical to Physical (P2P)
Workload Portability: Imaging	Physical to Image (P2I) Virtual to Image (V2I) Image to Virtual (I2V) Image to Physical (I2P)
Workload Portability: Cloud	Physical to Microsoft Azure (P2C) Virtual to Microsoft Azure (V2C)

PlateSpin Migrate supports multiple workload types and virtualization platforms. Imaging is supported for workloads with Microsoft Windows operating systems. For a more detailed list of supported workloads and infrastructures, see Supported Configurations.

PlateSpin Migrate also provides a Web Interface that supports large scale migration of workloads to VMware containers.Do not use the PlateSpin Migrate Client and the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface interchangeably to perform the migration tasks during the migration process of a workload. NetIQ Corporation strongly recommends that you either use the PlateSpin Migrate Client or the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface throughout the migration cycle of a workload. For information about the tasks you can perform using the PlateSpin Migrate Client and the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface, see Section 1.1.3, Migration Tasks Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface.

PlateSpin Migrate 12.1 enhances the Web Interface to let you migrate Windows and Linux workloads to Microsoft Azure. For information about the Windows and Linux workloads that you can migrate to Microsoft Azure, see Supported Windows and Linux Workloads For Migration to Microsoft Azure

1.1.1 Business Applications for PlateSpin Migrate

PlateSpin Migrate is designed to be used for the following scenarios:

Consolidation. Automating large-scale migrations of physical machines to virtual machines, accelerating consolidation projects, and reducing administrative effort and errors.
Migration. Moving fully configured workloads from old hardware to new hardware without rebuilding the entire software stack.
Test Lab Deployment. Consolidating test lab workloads by running multiple virtual machines on a single VM host, quickly deploying virtual test lab environments with ease, and replicating an entire production environment in matter of hours or days.
Maintenance and Support Agreement Integrity. De-virtualizing workloads along with the applications installed on them and moving them back to physical machines over the network so that the support agreements can remain valid.
Machine Provisioning. Easily capturing an entire library of hardware-independent PlateSpin Images and deploying them to new infrastructures over the network without manually configuring the hardware, drivers, and so on.
Continuous Workload Optimization. Moving workloads to and from any geographical location, onto any platform, in any direction. Workloads can be virtualized or de-virtualized during ongoing and continuous optimization of resources.

1.1.2 Workload Migration Tasks

PlateSpin Migrate enables you to define, save, schedule, execute, and monitor the following migration tasks.

Table 1-2 PlateSpin Migrate Workload Migration Tasks

Task	Description
Copy Workload	Results in a virtual or physical duplicate of a selected physical or virtual workload, except that the new workload is assigned a new network identity. Use this migration task when you intend to keep the source workload operational.
Move Workload	Results in an exact virtual or physical duplicate of a selected physical or virtual workload. Use this migration task when you intend to retire or repurpose the original infrastructure.
Server Sync	Synchronizes a virtual or physical workload with another virtual or physical workload without transferring the entire source volume data over the network.
Capture Image	Creates an image of a physical or virtual workload as a single entity, in PlateSpin Image format.
Deploy Image	Converts a PlateSpin Image into a booted or bootable workload on a physical or virtual machine.

1.1.3 Migration Tasks Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface

To migrate a workload, you should either use the PlateSpin Migrate Client or the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface throughout the migration cycle of the workload.

The following table lists the tasks that you can perform using the PlateSpin Migrate Client and the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface:

Tasks	PlateSpin Migrate Client	PlateSpin Migrate web Interface
Monitor workload migration workflow	✗	✓
Discover Windows standalone workloads	✓	✓
Discover Windows cluster workloads	✓	✓
Discover Linux standalone workloads	✓	✓
Discover Linux cluster workloads	✗	✗
Discover target VMware hosts	✓	✓
Discover target non-VMware hosts	✓	✗
Migrate to physical machines	✓	✗
Migrate to VMware hosts	✓	✓
Migrate to non-VMware hosts	✓	✗
Migrate to Azure Cloud	✗	✓
Migrate to image	✓	✗
Migrate Windows workloads with block-based transfer	✗	✓
Migrate Linux workloads with block-based transfer	✓	✓
Migrate Windows workloads with file-based transfer	✓	✓
Migrate Linux workloads with file-based transfer	✓	✗
Migrate Windows clusters with block-based transfer	✓	✓
Migrate workloads using live transfer	✓	✓
Migrate workloads using offline transfer	✓	✗
Schedule incremental replication	✗	✓
Migrate staged workloads using imaging	✓	✗
Support post migration scripts	✓	✗
Add new disks during migration	✓	✗
Change disk volume mapping for target workload	✓	✗
Migrate a VM to a vCenter folder	✗	✓
Move a VM to a resource pool	✓	✓
Set compression level	✓	✓
Throttle bandwidth	✓	✓
Set encryption	✓	✓
Create tags	✗	✓
View workload migration report	✓	✓
View workload migration status reports	✗	✓
Add or remove licenses	✓	✓
Check licenses status	✓	✓
Use security groups	✗	✓