What is Vmotion ?, Why you need Vmotion?, Requirement of Vmotion ?

What is Vmotion

Vmotion is a feature available in vCenter Server, which allows you to live migrate virtual machine from one ESXi host to another with zero application downtime.

Why you need Vmotion benefits and uses

1. Can move running virtual machine from one ESXi server to another ESXi server.
2. The VM's disk file stay where they are (on shared storage).
3. Balance the load on ESXi server with respect to CPU and memory utilization.
4. Perform patching and maintenance on an ESXi server.

Vmotion requirement

1. Fist thing you require is the licence vSphere Essential plus, standard, enterprise or enterprise plus at least on of these license.
2. Shared storage between ESXi servers iSCSI,FC or NFS if not then now shared nothing live migration is possible.
3. Vmkernel interface on both the ESXi servers with VMotion enabled.
4. Works with standard switch or distributed switch (should keep the same network name).
5. EVC- enhanced Vmotion compatibility should on in your cluster for CPU compatibility or family compatibility if there are different types of CPU available inside cluster.

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