Glossary

Auto-Discovery

Block-Based Transfer Component

A PlateSpin Migrate software component, dynamically installed on source workloads to facilitate volume data transfer at the block level. Compare with VSS Block-based Transfer Component; see also File-based Transfer Component.

Capture Image

A PlateSpin Migrate job that captures an image of a workload in PlateSpin Image format with an optional synchronization schedule for updating incremental changes. See also Deploy Image.

Controller

Conversion

Any workload portability operation irrespective of target infrastructure or business purpose (workload-hardware decoupling, virtualization, or volume synchronization). Used interchangeably with the term Migration throughout product collateral, the user interface, error messages, and logs.

Copy

A PlateSpin Migrate peer-to-peer migration job that creates a duplicate of a workload, with a new network identity, on a physical or virtual machine. Compare with Move.

Deploy Image

A PlateSpin Migrate job that converts a PlateSpin Image to a bootable workload on physical hardware or on a virtual machine. See also Capture Image.

Discover

Discover Details

A PlateSpin Migrate job that inventories the details of a supported workload or target machine in preparation for a migration operation. Compare with Network Discovery.

File-based Transfer Component

A PlateSpin Migrate software component, dynamically installed on a source workload to facilitate volume data transfer at the file level. See also Block-Based Transfer Component, VSS Block-based Transfer Component.

PlateSpin Image

(Formerly PlateSpin Flexible Image) One of PlateSpin Migrate’s three fundamental workload infrastructures along with physical machines and virtualization platforms. A PlateSpin Image is a static stored copy of the state of a physical or virtual machine (including volume data and the configuration details of the workload’s hardware profile, operating system, and network identity), captured at a specific point in time. To make a PlateSpin Image bootable, you convert it to a workload on physical hardware or a virtualization platform. See also Capture Image, Deploy Image, and Import Image.

PlateSpin Image Server

A machine on which you have installed the PlateSpin Image Server software. See PlateSpin Image.

I2P

Image-to-physical. A workload portability operation in which the source is a workload’s PlateSpin Image and the target is a bootable workload on physical hardware.

I2V

Image-to-virtual. A workload portability operation in which the source is a workload’s PlateSpin Image and the target is a bootable workload on a virtualization platform.

I2X

Image-to-anything. A workload portability operation in which the source is a workload’s PlateSpin Image and the target is a bootable workload either on physical hardware or on a virtualization platform.

Image

Image server

Import Image

A PlateSpin Migrate job that creates a PlateSpin Image by using either raw volume data or third-party volume archives.

Job

A collection of the essential parameters of a workload portability, discovery, removal (undiscovery), or related operation that you define, save, schedule, execute, and monitor in the PlateSpin Migrate Client.

Migration

Any peer-to-peer workload portability operation in which a physical or virtual workload is copied or moved into another physical or virtual infrastructure.

Move

A PlateSpin Migrate peer-to-peer workload migration task that moves a workload to a physical or virtual machine. Compare with Copy.

Network Discovery

A PlateSpin Migrate feature, based on standard Windows network browsing functionality, that automatically populates the PlateSpin Migrate Client’s Servers view with the names of Windows machines in the neighborhood. Compare with Discover Details.

OFX Controller

Operations Framework Controller. Software component that PlateSpin Migrate installs on source and target machines to enable them to communicate with PlateSpin Server and with each other.

Offline Migration

A type of migration, during which the source is shut down and booted into a temporary pre-execution environment to enable communication among the source, the target, and the PlateSpin Server.

P2I

Physical-to-image. A workload portability operation in which the source is a physical machine and the target is the workload’s PlateSpin Image.

P2P

Physical-to-physical. A peer-to-peer workload portability operation in which the source is a physical machine and the target is another physical machine on different hardware.

P2V

Physical-to-virtual. A peer-to-peer workload portability operation in which the source is a physical machine and the target is virtual machine.

P2X

Physical-to-anything. A workload portability operation in which the source is a physical machine and the target is another physical machine (P2P migration), a virtual machine (P2V migration), or a PlateSpin Image (P2I migration).

Peer-to-Peer

A workload portability operation in which both the source and the target are bootable workloads, either physical or virtual (as opposed to operations in which either the source or the target is a static PlateSpin Image). P2P, P2V, V2V, and V2P are all peer-to-peer portability operations; I2X and X2I are not.

PlateSpin Migrate Client

The client application you use to interact with the PlateSpin Server, discover source workloads and targets; set up, execute, and monitor jobs; manage license keys; and configure the default behavior of the server.

PlateSpin Migrate Network

A named collection of discovered workloads and target machines you work with at any given time. A parameter of all discovery jobs.

PlateSpin Server

The remote runtime execution engine underlying the PlateSpin Migrate product.

Prepare for Synchronization

A step in workload synchronization operations where the target is a virtual machine in a Server Sync job. It automates the configuration and preliminary booting of the target virtual machine, and registers it as a valid Server Sync target in the PlateSpin Migrate Client’s user interface. See Server Sync.

Raw Volume Data

A directory of files that constitute a volume suitable for a PlateSpin Image.

Role

One of the three kinds of Windows local user groups that define PlateSpin Migrate users with specific access permissions: PlateSpin Migrate Administrator, PlateSpin Migrate Power User, and PlateSpin Migrate Operator.

Semi-Automated Virtualization

A workload virtualization operation in which a workload's target infrastructure is a virtual machine that is treated by PlateSpin Migrate as a physical machine. Applies to target virtualization platforms for which PlateSpin Migrate provides limited workload portability automation. Compare with X2P.

Server

Server Sync

A workload portability operation that synchronizes the state of a physical or virtual workload (Windows or Linux) with the state of another physical or virtual workload of the same OS profile.

Source

The origin, or the infrastructure of the origin, of a workload portability operation (such as a physical machine, a virtual machine, or a PlateSpin Image). Compare with Target.

Take Control

1. See Offline Migration

2. The temporary pre-execution environment into which a Windows or Linux workload is booted during offline migration.

Target

The outcome, or the infrastructure of the outcome, of a workload portability operation (such as a physical machine, a virtual machine, or a PlateSpin Image). Compare with Source.

Undiscover

A PlateSpin Migrate job that discards information about a workload from its inventory and removes any controllers installed. See also Discover Details.

V2I

Virtual-to-image. A workload portability operation in which the source is a virtual machine and the target is a PlateSpin Image.

V2P

Virtual-to-physical. A peer-to-peer workload portability operation in which the source is a virtual machine and the target is a physical machine.

V2V

Virtual-to-virtual. A workload portability operation in which both the source and the target are virtual machines on similar or different virtualization platforms.

V2X

Virtual-to-anything. A workload portability operation in which the source is a virtual machine and the target is another virtual machine, a physical machine, or a workload’s PlateSpin Image.

VSS Block-based Transfer Component

A PlateSpin Migrate software component, dynamically installed on Windows source workloads to facilitate volume data transfer at the block level by using the Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service (VSS). See also Block-Based Transfer Component, File-based Transfer Component.

Workload

Any physical or virtual instance of a supported operating system, along with its applications and data.

X2I

Anything-to-image. A workload portability operation in which the target is a workload’s PlateSpin Image and the source is a physical machine or a virtual machine.

X2P

Anything-to-physical. A workload portability operation in which the target is a physical machine and the source is another physical machine, a virtual machine, or a workload’s PlateSpin Image.

X2V

Anything-to-virtual. A workload portability operation in which the target is a virtual machine and the source is another virtual machine, a physical machine, or a workload’s PlateSpin Image.