A major component in datacenter consolidation is migrating physical systems to virtual environments. The U.S. Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative has relied heavily on methods of migrating from physical hardware to virtual environments to allow for mandated cost cutting measures and datacenter consolidations.

When planning for hardware consolidation, many make the mistake of reinstalling their production systems from scratch into the virtual environment. Attempting to replicate the many configuration changes necessary to get the Operating System (OS) in a new enviornment can be tricky and prone to error. With Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin), you can create provisionable backups of the entire OS, and reinstall into your virtual environment. No need to re-install the OS and reconfigure the applications.

SBAdmin provides Adaptable System Recovery (ASR), which records your AIX, Linux, or Solaris system configuration in the backup, compare that with your newly detected virtual environment and adapt to any change. Migrating AIX systems to LPARS, Solaris to LDOMs or VirtualBox, Linux systems to VMware has never been easier.