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What Is Storage vMotion & How Does it Work?

What Is Storage vMotion & How Does it Work?

Storage vMotion is technology inside the VMware hosting platform that enables data centers to migrate virtual machines (VMs) without sacrificing performance. IT technicians can relocate mission-critical VM data to a different storage location while the VM continues to be continue to exist their server.  The resulting transfer occurs with none downtime or service interruption to […]

VMware vMotion: A Comprehensive Overview

VMware vMotion: A Comprehensive Overview

vMotion allows for the live migration of virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to a different with none interruption in service. While this technology has obvious advantages for server downtime, it also provides the technology mandatory to totally automate data centers and make them self-sufficient. How Does VMware vMotion Work? So, what’s vMotion? How […]

What’s VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)?

What’s VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)?

VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) allows virtual machines (VMs) to be moved between several types of processors without powering them down. This may be extremely useful when performing maintenance in your host servers or migrating your VMs to recent hardware. EVC was introduced in VMware vSphere 4.1 and has been available in all subsequent releases. […]