1.0 Planning Your PlateSpin Environment

PlateSpin Protect is business continuity and disaster recovery software that protects physical and virtual workloads (operating systems, middleware, and data) by using virtualization technology. If there is a production server outage or disaster, a virtualized replica of a workload can be rapidly powered on within the target container (a VM host), and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored.

PlateSpin Protect enables you to:

  • Quickly recover workloads upon failure

  • Simultaneously protect multiple workloads

  • Test the failover workload without interfering with your production environment

  • Fail back failover workloads to either their original infrastructures or to completely new infrastructures, physical or virtual

  • Take advantage of existing external storage solutions, such as SANs

Use the information in this section to plan your protection and recovery environment.