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PlateSpin Forge Virtualized Recovery Appliance
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Protect 10 workloads or 25 workloads out of the box.
Now with SAN support and enhanced workload integrity
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Consolidated Disaster Recovery Using Virtualization
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PlateSpin Forge is a disaster recovery hardware appliance that provides out-of-the-box protection for server workloads. In the event of production server downtime or a disaster, protected workloads can be rapidly recovered and continue to run on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to the production environment. Available in either a 10 or 25 workload protection model, PlateSpin Forge allows enterprises to cost-effectively match their recovery investment with the size of their data center. The latest version provides SAN integration, support for 64-bit Windows workloads and multiple recovery points for greater flexibility and workload integrity.
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“Plug In and Protect” Physical and Virtual Server Workloads
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PlateSpin Forge is a consolidated recovery hardware appliance that protects both physical and virtual server workloads using embedded virtualization technology. In the event of a production server outage or disaster, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored.
Designed to protect between 10 and 25 workloads (applications), PlateSpin Forge ships with all storage, applications and virtualization technology pre-packaged and ready to go. Organizations can also opt to leverage existing SAN storage for the recovery environment. For larger implementations, multiple PlateSpin Forge appliances can be deployed and centrally managed through a “single pane of glass” Web management console.
By dramatically reducing the time and specialized technical resources required to plan, provision, deploy and test a recovery environment, PlateSpin Forge puts workload protection and recovery within reach for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as departments and branch offices within larger enterprises. With PlateSpin Forge, organizations can begin reliably protecting their physical and virtual workloads in a matter of hours as opposed to months.
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| Consolidated Disaster Recovery Using Virtualization
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PlateSpin Forge is a disaster recovery hardware appliance that provides out-of-the-box protection for server workloads. In the event of production server downtime or a disaster, protected workloads can be rapidly recovered and continue to run on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to the production environment. Available in either a 10 or 25 workload protection model, PlateSpin Forge allows enterprises to cost-effectively match their recovery investment with the size of their data center. The latest version provides SAN integration, support for 64-bit Windows workloads and multiple recovery points for greater flexibility and workload integrity.
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Quicker, Smarter, More Economical |
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PlateSpin Forge revolutionizes the way disaster recovery solutions are deployed, tested and managed by offering an affordable and easy-to-use solution for protecting all workloads in the data center. With PlateSpin Forge, data centers can protect whole server workloads – both system and data volumes – within a single bootable recovery environment using virtualization. Providing consolidated workload protection and rapid recovery with no need for costly duplicate hardware and software, PlateSpin Forge is disaster recovery evolved.
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Easier to Test
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Regular testing is a critical but often overlooked component of a disaster recovery plan. PlateSpin Forge allows organizations to rapidly and easily test the integrity of workload replication. With a single click, users can take a virtual snapshot of the recovery workload, power it on within a private internal network and quickly validate the recovery plan to ensure that recovery metrics including RTO and RPO are met. Because the test snapshot is fenced off from the production network, users can work without impacting the integrity of the production environment.
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Faster to Recover and Restore
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It is no longer sufficient simply to be able to recover from an outage. The recovery must also be fast and seamless in order to minimize business disruption and data loss. With PlateSpin Forge, recovery time in the event of downtime is as simple as powering on a virtual machine. PlateSpin Forge enables organizations to cost-effectively improve recovery time and point objectives across a broad range of server workloads. PlateSpin Forge provides the flexibility to restore workloads to any physical or virtual host regardless of manufacturer, make or model.
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Simpler to Manage
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PlateSpin Forge includes an intuitive Web-based interface for managing, monitoring and reporting on all aspects of workload protection and recovery. An ever-present dashboard enables users to view the status of their protection plan at all times and receive actionable alerts via a mobile device. PlateSpin Forge’s unique integrated management interface radically reduces the time, effort and training required to administer a recovery solution.
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Features
- Dual Xeon, 36GB RAM + 2 TB Storage, 6 Ethernet ports, Fibre Ports, iSCSI ports, SAN and Fibre Tape Drive Connectivity.
- Within your Budget
- Cross Plateform Support
- VMWare
- Citrix XenServer
- Novell Suse XEN
- Ms Windows Hyper-V
- Can be Located at a second site
- Can allow users to connect and work real time
- Almost mirror continious data replication (up to 6 minutes behind)
- Web Management Interface Can be set up easily
- Operates according to rules and requires little management
The Value Proposition
- Recover multiple workloads using a single recovery appliance
- Consolidate workloads for a 10 to 1 or 25 to 1 workload protection ratio
- Power on recovery workloads with a single click
- Rapidly restore workloads to the same or different hardware
- Quickly run DR “fire drills” to test restore times and disaster readiness
- Easily monitor and report on key replication and recovery functions
- Improve RTO and RPO without costly hardware/software redundancy
- Single pane of glass visibility across multiple appliances
Find out how it works ...more info
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Where PlateSpin Forge Fits
| Solution |
Cost |
RPO* |
RTO* |
TTO* |
Notes |
| Tape/Manual Rebuild |
$ |
24 Hr+ |
Days |
Days
(Impractical) |
Difficult to administer and test
Slow, prone to errors |
| Image Capture |
$$$ |
24 Hr |
Hours |
- Hours
(Requires additonal hardware)
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- Limited restore flexibility
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| PlateSpin Forge |
$$$$ |
Hours |
Minutes |
Minutes
(No impact on production data, zero-risk) |
Rapid recovery/flexible restore
Easy setup and testing
25 to 1 protection ratio |
| High-end Replication |
$$$$$ |
Minutes |
Minutes |
- Minutes
(Impacts production data, adds risk)
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Complicated configuration
Duplicate hardware |
| Server clustering |
$$$$$$ |
0 |
0 |
- Near zero
(Impacts production data, adds risk)
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- Duplicate hardware
Complicated
setup
Difficult to test
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Definitions
* Recovery Point Objective – the time between the latest backup and the system disaster, representing the nearest historical point in time to which a system can be recovered.
* Recovery Time Objective – the length of time between a system disaster and when the system is again operational.
* Test Time Objective (TTO) – measures the time and effort required to test a disaster recovery plan to ensure its effectiveness. TTO, or the ease with which recovery plans can be tested, is emerging as a key disaster recovery metric.
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Platespin is a Novell Company
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