Novell reported that it made significant enhancements to its PlateSpin® Workload Management solution. The new solution enables customers to profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments.

The company said that PlateSpin Workload Management is the only solution on the market to support 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server, VMware ESX and ESXi and Xen integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

The solution enables data center administrators to optimize the distribution of workloads to provide the best performance for users and applications across both physical and virtual machines. The Novel says that as a result of this "customers can transform their IT environment into a more efficient and resilient next-generation data center".

More about PlateSpin Workload Management can be found on Novel's website.