Case Study: Leading Automotive Company achieves low‑downtime global data‑center consolidation and 1,000+ server migrations with NetIQ PlateSpin Migrate

Leading Automotive Company - Customer Case Study

A global automotive supplier with design and manufacturing sites across three continents faced costly, risky and inefficient IT fragmentation after several acquisitions. The company maintained a mix of physical servers and VMware virtual machines in multiple regional data centers but wanted to consolidate to virtual Windows servers on Microsoft Hyper‑V. Limited WAN bandwidth and unreliable connections—plus an inability to tolerate long production downtime—made traditional WAN migrations or hardware “lift-and-shift” approaches impractical.

The company used PlateSpin Migrate’s staged migration capability to capture images locally, physically transfer them to regional data centers, deploy and test them on Hyper‑V, then use Server Sync to apply only interim changes over the WAN. This hybrid, automated approach minimized downtime and technician effort (with built‑in testing and support for up to 40 concurrent migrations), avoided per‑migration fees, and has enabled more than 1,000 successful server migrations while keeping the global consolidation project on schedule and reducing disruption and cost.