Platespin Migrate 12.2.1 User Guide

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Platespin Migrate 12.2.1 User Guide PlateSpin® Migrate 12.2.1 User Guide September 2018 Legal Notice For information about legal notices, trademarks, disclaimers, warranties, export and other use restrictions, U.S. Government rights, patent policy, and FIPS compliance, see https://www.microfocus.com/about/legal/. Copyright © 2017 NetIQ Corporation, a Micro Focus Company. All rights reserved. License Grant License bought for PlateSpin Migrate 9.3 and later versions cannot be used with PlateSpin Migrate 9.2 and prior versions. Contents About This Guide 15 Part I Overview and Planning 17 1 Overview of Workload Migration 19 1.1 Workload Migration Scenarios . 19 1.2 Understanding Workload Migration . 19 1.3 Large-Scale Migration Planning and Automation . .21 2 Planning Your Workload Migrations 23 2.1 Supported Configurations . 23 2.1.1 Supported Source Workloads For Migration to Non-Cloud Platforms . 23 2.1.2 Supported Workloads for Migration to the Cloud. 27 2.1.3 Supported Workload Storage. 32 2.1.4 Supported Workload Architectures . 36 2.1.5 Supported Target Virtualization Platforms . 38 2.1.6 Supported Target Cloud Platforms. 40 2.1.7 Supported International Languages. 41 2.1.8 Supported Web Browsers . .41 2.2 Supported Data Transfer Methods . 42 2.2.1 File-Level Transfer (Live) . 42 2.2.2 Block-Level Transfer (Live) . 42 2.2.3 Offline Transfer with Temporary Boot Environment . 43 2.3 Security and Privacy . 43 2.3.1 Secure Connections Using TLS 1.2. 44 2.3.2 Security of Workload Data in Transmission . 46 2.3.3 Security of Client-Server Communications . 46 2.3.4 Security of Credentials. 46 2.3.5 User Authorization and Authentication. 46 2.4 Performance. 47 2.4.1 About Product Performance Characteristics . 47 2.4.2 Scalability. 47 2.4.3 Data Compression . 48 2.4.4 Bandwidth Throttling . 48 2.4.5 Blackout Window . 48 2.5 Database Server . 48 2.6 Access and Communication Requirements across your Migration Network . 49 2.6.1 Requirements for Discovery . .49 2.6.2 Requirements for Migration . 50 2.6.3 Requirements for Event Messaging. 52 2.6.4 Migrations Across Public and Private Networks through NAT . 53 2.7 Deciding on the Migration Interface . 53 Contents 3 A Frequently Asked Questions 55 Part II Working With Your PlateSpin Server 57 3 Using the PlateSpin Migrate Tools 59 3.1 Connecting to a PlateSpin Migrate Server . 59 3.1.1 PlateSpin Server Access Using the Migrate Client . 59 3.1.2 PlateSpin Server Access Using the Migrate Web Interface . 61 3.2 About the PlateSpin Migrate Client User Interface. 61 3.2.1 Navigating the Client Interface. 61 3.2.2 Servers View . 62 3.2.3 Jobs View. 67 3.2.4 Tasks Pane . 67 3.2.5 Status Bar . 68 3.2.6 Workload Migration Tasks . 68 3.3 About the PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface . 68 3.3.1 Navigating the Web Interface. 69 3.3.2 Workloads . 70 3.3.3 Targets . 74 3.3.4 Tasks . 74 3.3.5 Dashboard . 75 3.3.6 Reports . 75 3.4 Migration Operations Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface. 75 3.5 Migration Tasks Matrix for PlateSpin Migrate Client and PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface . 76 3.6 Other PlateSpin Server Management Tools. 78 3.6.1 PlateSpin Configuration . 78 3.6.2 PlateSpin Migrate Client Command Line Interface . 79 3.6.3 PlateSpin Analyzer. 79 3.6.4 Migrate Agent Utility. 79 3.6.5 PlateSpin ISO . 79 4 Configuring PlateSpin Users and Access 81 4.1 Configuring User Authorization and Authentication . 81 4.1.1 PlateSpin Migrate Roles . 81 4.1.2 Assigning PlateSpin Migrate Roles to Windows Users . 83 4.2 Configuring PlateSpin Migrate Multitenancy on VMware . 84 4.2.1 Defining VMware Roles for Multitenancy. 84 4.2.2 Assigning Roles In vCenter . 87 4.3 Configuring Permissions for Workload Access in PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface . 90 5 Configuring PlateSpin Migrate Server 91 5.1 PlateSpin Migrate Product Licensing . ..
Recommended publications
  • Platespin Migrate 12.2.2 User Guide
    PlateSpin® Migrate 12.2.2 User Guide June 2018 Legal Notice For information about legal notices, trademarks, disclaimers, warranties, export and other use restrictions, U.S. Government rights, patent policy, and FIPS compliance, see https://www.microfocus.com/about/legal/. Copyright © 2018 NetIQ Corporation, a Micro Focus Company. All rights reserved. License Grant License bought for PlateSpin Migrate 9.3 and later versions cannot be used with PlateSpin Migrate 9.2 and prior versions. Contents About This Guide 17 Part I Overview and Planning 19 1 Overview of Workload Migration 21 1.1 Workload Migration Scenarios . 21 1.2 Understanding Workload Migration . 21 1.3 Large-Scale Migration Planning and Automation . .23 2 Planning Your Workload Migrations 25 2.1 Supported Configurations . 25 2.1.1 Supported Source Workloads For Migration to Non-Cloud Platforms . 25 2.1.2 Supported Workloads for Migration to the Cloud. 29 2.1.3 Supported Workload Storage. 33 2.1.4 Supported Workload Architectures . 37 2.1.5 Supported Target Virtualization Platforms . 39 2.1.6 Supported Target Cloud Platforms. 42 2.1.7 Supported International Languages. 43 2.1.8 Supported Web Browsers . .43 2.2 Supported Data Transfer Methods . 43 2.2.1 File-Level Transfer (Live) . 43 2.2.2 Block-Level Transfer (Live) . 44 2.2.3 Offline Transfer with Temporary Boot Environment . 44 2.3 Security and Privacy . 45 2.3.1 Security Best Practices . 45 2.3.2 PlateSpin Migrate and Anti-Virus Applications. 45 2.3.3 Secure Connections Using TLS 1.2. 46 2.3.4 Security of Workload Data in Transmission .
    [Show full text]
  • This Combined Issue Brings You a Virtual Cornucopia of Products and Vendors
    December 2010/January 2011 | Vol. 4 | No. 1 VirtualizationReview.com This combined issue brings you a virtual cornucopia of products and vendors. Can you guess who dominates the RCA awards? The 2011 Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards Ultimateand Buyers READERS CHOICE AWARDS Guide Our readers rate products, and we reward them with the hands-down, most-informative, must-read print guide to virtualization and cloud products. By Bruce Hoard 2 | December 2010/January 2011 | Virtualization Review | VirtualizationReview.com FEATURE | The 2011 Ultimate Virtualization Buyers Guide and Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards elcome to the combined 2011 Application Virtualization Virtualization Buyers Guide and Virtualization Review Readers Readers Choice Award Winner VMware ThinApp 4.5 – VMware Inc. Choice Awards. By combining (43.6%) W $5,000 n vmware.com n 877-486-9273; these two editorial efforts, we are able to 650-427-5000 showcase both the virtualization and cloud This is a big win for VMware in a category where Citrix is extremely well established with its XenApp product, which products that you voted as your favorites has been around for many years. ThinApp no doubt benefited from its ability to ease the migration of existing apps to and many others that will be vying for your Windows 7. Merit Award winner Citrix was joined by Parallels, attention during the coming year. All told, which finished a distant third, but is favorably viewed as a technology trendsetter. we amassed some 211 products from 106 VMware ThinApp isolates applications from the operating vendors, and placed them in 15 categories for environment, enabling enterprises to manage applications from a central source and deliver them instantly to nearly both the Readers Choice Awards and Ultimate any device, while streamlining security, updates, patches and performance.
    [Show full text]
  • Virtualization Essentials Second Edition
    VIRTUALIZATION ESSENTIALS SECOND EDITION VIRTUALIZATION ESSENTIALS SECOND EDITION Matthew Portnoy Executive Editor : Jody Lefevere Development Editor: Kelly Talbot Technical Editor: Van Van Noy Production Editor : Barath Kumar Rajasekaran Copy Editor: Kathy Grider-Carlyle Editorial Manager: Mary Beth Wakefield Production Manager: Kathleen Wisor Proofreader : Nancy Bell Indexer: Johnna VanHoose Dinse Project Coordinator, Cover: Brent Savage Cover Designer : Wiley Cover Image: ©DrHitch/Shutterstock Copyright © 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-1-119-26772-0 ISBN: 978-1-119-26774-4 (ebk.) ISBN: 978-1-119-26773-7 (ebk.) Manufactured in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permis- sion of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley .com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and the author make no representations or warran- ties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of fitness for a particular purpose.
    [Show full text]
  • Virtualization and Workload Management Solutions from Novell
    Solution Flyer Virtualization and Workload Management Solutions from Novell Solutions: Thousands of organizations around the world are Virtualization and Workload using virtualization and cloud computing to reduce Management Products: IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization Novell Cloud Manager and flexibility of their existing data centers. Yet, it’s PlateSpin Recon PlateSpin Migrate harder to realize the promises of virtualization and PlateSpin Protect cloud computing than most organizations expect. Virtualization and Workload Management solutions from Novell can help. “Novell Cloud Manager allows Confront Data Center dramatically reduce purchase, provisioning us to simplify and automate Challenges Today and maintenance costs by consolidating bus- many of our business processes, If deployed incorrectly, virtualization and iness applications and services on a limited accelerate IT service delivery as cloud computing solutions can wreak havoc number of highly scalable and reliable enter- well as provide visibility and cost on a business. Whether your organization is prise-class servers. However, virtualization transparency to the business. just starting out with virtualization, or already goes beyond simple server consolidation. Strategically, this will provide has a mature virtual infrastructure and is As knowledge about virtualization grows, us with a competitive edge.” looking to the cloud, Novell has the products, the value proposition of virtualization shifts Ryan Klose toward new capabilities like cloud computing, experience and best practice knowledge Chief Information Officer to help you succeed. Novell is uniquely self-service, standardization, rapid deploy- Premium Wine Brands for Pernod Ricard positioned to help businesses realized the ment and disaster recovery. There is a tre- promise of virtualization, cloud computing mendous opportunity to leverage the value and an agile data center by providing a of cloud computing and virtualization.
    [Show full text]