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PlateSpin Protect 11.2		Install Instructions
bootofx.x2p.iso	350.4 MB (367421440)
PlateSpinProtectSetup-11.2.0.192.exe	3.2 GB (3430962706)
VolumeManager.exe	24.5 KB (25088)

Product Description

PlateSpin Protect is business continuity and disaster recovery software that replicates and rapidly recovers workloads (operating systems along with their applications and data). In the event of a production server outage or disaster, workloads are rapidly powered on and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored.

PlateSpin Protect uses operating system virtualization as the mechanism underlying its workload protection functionality. This mechanism provides you the capability to rapidly recover a workload and requires that you have an existing VM host (a VM container).

As part of the protection workflow, PlateSpin Protect creates a failover workload (a virtual replica of your production workload) and regularly updates it at configurable intervals. If your production workload goes offline, you can fail it over to the VM replica, which takes over the business services of the failed workload. You can then fail this workload back to either its original or to a completely new infrastructure, physical or virtual.

The documentation for this product is available on the PlateSpin Protect 11.2 Documentation website.

Key Features

PlateSpin Protect 11.2 adds new features and enhancements, and resolves several previous issues. It also resolves important performance and reliability issues.

New Features and Enhancements
- Provides support for the following operating systems as workloads:
  - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 failover clusters
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  - CentOS 4, 5, 6, and 7
- Provides support for VMware ESXi 6.0 as a VM container.
- Provides a pre-compiled blkwatch driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. For a complete list of drivers, see "Linux Distributions Supported by Protect" in the PlateSpin Protect User Guide.
- Provides the ability to define the number of cores and the number of cores per socket for the CPU of a replication workload on a VM container using VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, or 6.0.
- Provides the ability to discover Windows clusters based on their active node, instead of using the virtual cluster name and an administrative share. You can enable or disable Windows cluster discovery for your PlateSpin environment.
Software Fixes
This release resolves several previous software issues, as well as important performance and reliability issues. For a list of software fixes, see the Release Notes.
Upgradeability
Licensed PlateSpin Protect customers can upgrade to PlateSpin Protect 11.2 from an existing installation of any of the following versions of the product, with or without hotfixes or field patches applied:
- PlateSpin Protect 11.0.1
- PlateSpin Protect 11.1
Other direct updates are not supported. You must update to one of these versions before you can upgrade to Protect 11.2. See "Upgrading PlateSpin Protect " in the PlateSpin Protect Installation and Upgrade Guide.

File Description

Filename	Usage
PlateSpinProtectSetup-11.2.0.xxxx.exe (where xxxx denotes the build number)	Used to install the product. The program checks your system for the necessary prerequisites and interactively installs the required software components. See "Installing PlateSpin Protect" in the PlateSpin Protect Installation and Upgrade Guide.
bootofx.x2p.iso	Used to boot BIOS firmware-based targets or UEFI firmware-based targets in preparation for "workload failback." See "Failback to Physical Machines" in the PlateSpin Protect User Guide. Note: This tool is also compatible with the PlateSpin Forge product.
VolumeManager.exe	Used to change the local volume serial numbers to match on each node of the Windows cluster that you want to protect. See "Synchronizing Serial Numbers on Cluster Node Local Storage" in the PlateSpin Protect User Guide. Note: This tool is also compatible with the PlateSpin Forge product.

System Requirements

For the most recent information about system requirements for the PlateSpin Protect software, see "System Requirements" in the PlateSpin Protect Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Supported Workloads

For the most recent information about requirements for workloads, see "Supported Configurations" in the PlateSpin Protect User Guide.

Downloading and Installing PlateSpin Protect

To download the installation program:

On the download page, select the PlateSpinProtectSetup-11.2.0.xxxx.exe file to download.
Click download, then copy the file to an accessible location on the computer where you want to install the product.

Important: If the installer is archived into a .zip file, first download it, save it locally, and then extract the installation program.

Before you launch the installation program, you must read the installation documentation, decide on an installation layout, and ensure that your host meets the system requirements for the different software components of PlateSpin Protect. See "Installing PlateSpin Protect" in the PlateSpin Protect Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Known Issues

For the list of known issues, see the Release Notes on the PlateSpin Protect 11.2 Documentation website.