We ran into the following problem: we added a new LUN to our small SAN when we upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0. We wanted to move a number of VMs from one LUN to the other using storage vMotion. One ...

I asked about this issue before and never really got a good answer. Hosts have 2 x 2 port 10Gb NICs, two ports are for guest traffic, the other two are for iSCSI/vMotion. The 10Gb switches at the core ...

Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran, speaker, author, blogger and VMware expert with more than 25 years of experience. VMware vSphere ESXi’s vMotion feature has proved to be one of the most ...

How do you mix vMotion and multimedia on the same VM hardware? vMotion is a capability within VMWare that "allows you to move an entire running virtual machine from one physical server to another, ...

One of the best technologies for vSphere is the virtual machine migration technology, vMotion. vMotion received plenty of fanfare and has been a boon to virtualized environments for nearly five years.

The defining feature that elevated VMware from being just about server consolidation to encompassing the realm of business continuity was vMotion. With vMotion, no longer did a datacenter need to ...

The newest release of VMware, announced this week, includes a data migration capability that users have wanted for years, one that analysts say should prompt storage vendors to change the way they ...

Storage vMotion is often derided as an unnecessary feature you'll never need -- don't believe that for a second An enormous chunk of the money we spend on IT infrastructure goes to avoiding downtime — ...

If you ever listen to system administrators or just about anyone involved in IT these days, you'll probably hear the term, VMotion, during the conversation. If you need to know more about this ...