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 ...

One of the things I like about being in the IT industry is the sense of community. And as both VMware and virtualization in general continue to expand in popularity, the virtualization community ...

VMotion can be started manually (for let’s say a change window) or dynamically, based on resource usage, by VMware’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS). If a single VMware server’s CPU usage gets above ...

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, ...

VMware and Cisco have announced support for a solution that allows for virtualised applications to be shared over a network up to 200 kilometres apart. Described as 'Long Distance VMotion', the ...

One user's assertion in this blog about the safety of live VM migration sparked a lot of reader dissension, some of which was based on solid technical arguments and some on the kind of FUD that may ...

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 ...

I just moved from a huge shop, where VI license costs aren't a big deal, to a small shop, where, for weird accounting reasons, we can blow a bunch of money on hardware, but not much on ...

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 ...