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VMware Cross-Cloud vMotion is another major milestone on VMware Seemless Hybrid Cloud Vision
If you are like me or many of VMware customers who has been following the VMware Hybrid Cloud Story closely for a while, you have probably asked yourself or your sales rep when will you be able to move your Virtual Machines back and forth between On Premise (Private Cloud) to vCloud Air (VMware Public…
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VMware VMotion Improvement in VMware vSphere 5
As most bloggers when vSphere 5 arrived decided to cover the improvement on VMware HA, as it was totally revamped. I have decided to cover up the improvement on VMware VMotion in vSphere 5. VMware VMotion had as much improvement in vSphere 5 as VMware HA had, but seems to be forgotten by most bloggers.…
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Enabling Long Distance Live Migration with F5 and VMware vMotion
As more and more companies offer different way of doing cloud computing, the concept it self is getting fuzzier to the consumer. Further, after VMware has prompted the idea of Hybrid Cloud Computing, many other companies have copied the road map as usual and started to talk about it as being the first to promote…
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How to enable VMotion if you have bought vSphere Essential Plus 4.0
As many of you know VMware has included VMotion in vSphere Essential Plus 4.1, where it was not included in vSphere Essential Plus 4.0 I have been getting the question lately, how do I obtain VMotion in this case if I have a valid support. Do I have to upgrade or change my license? The…
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VMware vSphere 4.1 Standard License to Include VMotion
Although this news has been released for over a month now, I believe it was not pushed hard enough. Now its the time for it to make it to my blog. After reading this post, cheaper can no more be an execuse to not choose VMware the leading Virtualization product for your datacenter. Its no…
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VMware Long Distance VMotion is the missing link for cloud computing today
I am not sure how many people has heard of VMware Long Distance VMotion, although the concept has been supported since fourth quarter of last year. For that, I thought its worth getting people to know about it. It even get more important when deciding on your cloud computing vendor. At the moment, many companies…
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Another Secret reason why you should purchase VMware Storage VMotion
As most of you already know VMware Storage VMotion is the ability to live migrate a virtual machine from one storage to another without any downtime. The usage most IT Professional relate to VMware Storage VMotion is the following: The ability to move your virtual machines from a storage or datastore to another for maintenance…
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VMware vSphere Virtual Machine still show old datastore after storage vMotion
Before I start with the article, I have to point out this is not a VMware bug. Its the VMware admins doing what they are not suppose to do. VMware ESX 3 & VMware ESX 4 Administration Guides mention clearly that you should not VMotion or Storage vMotion a Virtual machine before disconnecting it from…
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VMware EVC (Enhanced VMotion Compatibility) enable VMware VMotion across CPU generations
Everyone who had been using VMware for a while, would appreciate VMware VMotion. Actually VMware VMotion have always been a distinguished feature of VMware ESX servers. Despite of VMotion has always been a great feature, people using it at earlier stages used to have a tough time when having to use it across different CPU generation. That meant companies had…
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VMware ESX – VMware VMotion
What’s VMware VMotion? VMware VMotion enables the active migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without interruption of service, availability of service and complete integrity of transactions. VMware VMotion moves running virtual machines from one physical server to another while maintaining service availability. VMware VMotion allows IT organizations to: Perform live…