Getting Started Guide
About This Guide 7
novdocx (en) 7 January 2010
About This Guide
This document provides a focused information road map to Dell customers of PlateSpin
®
Migrate
(part of PlateSpin
®
Portability Suite, formerly PlateSpin PowerConvert). It is designed to help you
get started with the workload portability features of the software.
This text complements the PlateSpin
®
Portability Suite product documentation listed under “Core
Product Documentation” on page 8 and is not intended to replace it, except for information about
licensing and supported configurations (migration source and target specifics).
Chapter 1, “Getting Started with PlateSpin Migrate,” on page 9
Appendix A, “Supported Configurations,” on page 15
Terminology
For help with terms used in PlateSpin
®
Portability Suite documentation, see the Portability Suite
Glossary (http://www.novell.com/documentation/platespin_portabilitysuite_810/user/data/
bgqrp99.html) section at the end of your User Guide or in the online help.
Audience
This text is intended for IT staff, such as data center administrators and operators, who use
PlateSpin
®
Migrate in their ongoing workload portability projects.
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included with this product.Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the
online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your
comments there.
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