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

Leading Automotive Company - Customer Case Study

A global automotive components manufacturer that had grown through acquisitions faced a costly, risky and fragmented IT estate spread across multiple international data centers. The company needed to consolidate diverse physical and VMware workloads into centralized Microsoft Hyper‑V regional data centers, but limited WAN bandwidth, unreliable connections and a strict no‑downtime requirement made conventional migrations impractical.

The company used PlateSpin Migrate’s staged migration capability to image systems locally, ship and deploy those images as Hyper‑V VMs in the new data centers, then apply incremental Server Sync updates over the WAN before cutover. This hybrid approach minimized downtime and bandwidth use, enabled automated testing and up to 40 concurrent migrations, and has delivered more than 1,000 successful server migrations on schedule while reducing disruption and technician effort.