Security Analyst – Jeff Soehner CISSP, GXPN,GPYC,GMOB,GCIH

Wow – Novells Platespin 9 now allows you to connect to the new ESXi 5 with a free license and run a complete migration without the need of booting the target manually. In the past we needed to boot an ISO image in order to register a target for migration. The VM API was not available on the free version and the platespin controller wouldn’t create virtual machines unless you had a VMware license but I am happy to report that this has now been changed. We just finished a 64 bit windows 2003 migration onto a patched version of ESXi 5 (474610).