SanXfer Cloud and VM Optimized Edition

SanXfer Cloud and VM Optimized Edition is an essential tool for any modern IT environment. SanXfer allows IT staff to quickly upgrade server hardware, migrate existing local booting systems into the SAN, and convert between physical and virtual servers without reinstalling the OS or applications.

List Price: $395 per server*

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Confidently embrace a new virtualization or SAN strategy with the industry’s fastest and most intuitive utility. Optimized for large-scale virtualization and Cloud migrations, SanXfer allows you to perform a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) or Physical-to-Physical (P2P) migration in as few as 10 minutes.

With SanXfer, you have the flexibility to change the storage from which your systems boot and the type of machine (Physical or Virtual) which actually boots your systems. By supporting all major virtualization technologies including VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer, our customers are empowered to utilize the tool which best meets their needs. SanXfer also simplifies the process of moving into or out of cloud infrastractures, whether public or private.

SanXfer now provides the option to migrate servers over an IP network or a Fibre Channel (FC) network. Using SanXfer's wizard-driven, automated process, Windows-based systems can be migrated over an IP or FC network from any of these storage/boot options to any of these storage/boot options: local disks, SAN disks, iSCSI disks, or Virtual Disks (VMDKs).

A common problem with VMware Virtual Machines is a performance penalty due to misaligned partitions inside of VMDK files. The misalignment can results in a 20-30% negative performance hit. When performing an initial P2V, SanXfer correctly aligns the VMDK based partitions to avoid such problems. Further, for customers who already have VM alignment issues, SanXfer can be used to quickly resolve the alignment issue, thereby restoring your servers to their full potential.

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iSCSI Boot Disks

Migrations over Fibre Channel or IP

Physical to Virtual (P2V)

SAN Booting Physical Servers

Recovery of Failed Servers

Upgrading Servers

Datacenter Upgrades

Rapid Server Provisioning/Cloning

SAN-to-SAN Data Migration Utility

Virtual Machine Alignment

SanXfer Support

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SanXfer comes in three editions to meet requirements for large datacenter moves, disaster recovery projects and day-to-day Server migration and protection.

Feature DC Mover
Edition
Cloud & VM Optimized
Edition
Automated
DR Edition
Convert Local booting system into SAN booting system SAN booting system local disk booting system upgrade a server
Convert SAN booting system to a Local disk booting system replace a physical server provision new server remote site server reconfiguration
Quickly Replace or Upgrade a server to any hardware server synchronization disaster recovery server migration
Support for local disks, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI storage area network host migration data recovery
Licensed for a one time use virtualization software
Licensed for repeated use software utility local booting system
Fast Provisioning of new servers server management san-booting system
Replace a Physical Server with a Virtual Machine (P2V) SAN SAN boot
Move from a Virtual Machine back to Physical (V2P) SAN SAN
Remote (DR) site server reconfiguration SAN boot
Multi-site SanXfer Library Server Synchronization SAN
SAN-to-SAN Data TranXfer SAN SAN SAN

Optional Data TranXfer licenses can be purchased in 1 TB increments.
Download SanXfer data sheet on SAN to SAN Data TranXfer feature (PDF).


SanXfer Competitor Comparisons

Although there are other Server migration and P2V tools out there, we believe SanXfer is the fastest and most reliable. SanXfer takes less than an hour to install and setup, and you can migrate a server in as little as 5 minutes. Don't just take our word for it, try it today for free.

Feature SanXfer Platespin Migrate Double-Take Move Quest vConverter
Enables hardware Independence Yes Yes Yes Yes
Local-Boot to SAN-Boot Migrations Yes No No No
Server Migration Over IP Network Yes Yes Yes Yes
Server Migration Over Fibre Channel Network Yes No No No
P2P (Physical-to-Physical) Yes Yes Yes No
P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) Yes Yes Yes Yes
V2P (Virtual-to-Physical) Yes Yes Yes No
V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual) Yes Yes Yes No
SAN-based Server Migration Yes No No No
Requires OS to be Pre-installed on Target System No No Yes Yes
Windows Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Linux Support 2Q2012 Yes No No
Data Migration Option (for bulk transfers) Between Heterogeneous Storage Yes No No No
Data Migration Option (for bulk transfers) Over Heterogeneous Networks (FC to iSCSI) Yes No No No
Requires a secondary Server Sync phase No Yes No No
Fastest Migrations on the Market Yes No No No


SanXfer contains advanced logic to help dynamically optimize server migrations. This unique technology allows you to take advantage of high speed components such as fiber channel networks, high-performance disk arrays, and multi-core CPUs. By adjusting the migration parameters to the available environment, SanXfer can optimize the time required to migrate a server or a group of servers.

For a simple Windows server with a C: and D: drive totaling 30GB, SanXfer can migrate the server to new hardware across a Fibre Channel network in about 10 minutes.

If older components are in place, SanXfer is equally as reliable. Servers can be migrated across 10MB Ethernet links, as well as across wifi connections.

Because SanXfer performs an offline migration, there is no follow-up “Sync Step”, or even worse, multiple Sync Steps, as some other migration products require. All applications and data can be migrated in one shot. When a migrated server reboots on new hardware, new storage, or on a Virtual Machine, the Windows OS, and applications that run n that server treat the migration the same as a normal reboot.

SanXfer makes server migrations Fast and Reliable.

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