Dell PlateSpin Getting Started Guide
Getting Started Guide
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PlateSpin® Migrate for Dell
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PlateSpin Migrate for Dell 8.1 Getting Started Guide
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Contents
About This Guide 7
1 Getting Started with PlateSpin Migrate 9
1.1 License Capabilities of PlateSpin Migrate for Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2 Workload Migration Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3 Activating Your License and Accessing PlateSpin Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4 Installing PlateSpin Migrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5 Verifying Supported Workloads and Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5.1 Verifying Supported Configurations for P2V Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5.2 Verifying Supported Configurations for V2P Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5.3 Verifying Supported Configurations for P2P Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.6 Discovering Migration Sources and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.7 Analyzing Discovered Workloads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8 Adding Device Drivers to the PlateSpin Migrate X2P Device Driver Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.9 Pre-Migration Tasks (P2V). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.10 Migrating Workloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.11 Post-Migration Tasks (V2P and P2P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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A Supported Configurations 15
A.1 Supported Source Systems for P2V and P2P Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A.2 Supported Targets for V2P and P2P Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A.3 Matrix of Supported Source Hypervisors and Workloads for V2P Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A.4 Matrix of Supported Target Hypervisors and Source Workloads for P2V Migration . . . . . . . . 17
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