vMotion

Designing your vMotion network – Multi-NIC vMotion and NetIOC

Designing a vMotion network can be quite a challenge. You want to provide vMotion as much bandwidth as possible but not...
frankdenneman
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Adjusting the cost of vMotion – a word of caution

Yesterday I posted an article on how to change the cost of vMotion in order to change the default number of...
frankdenneman
2 min read

Limiting the number of concurrent vMotions

After explaining how to limit the number of concurrent Storage vMotions operations, I received multiple questions on how to limit the...
frankdenneman
4 min read

Manual storage vMotion migrations into a datastore cluster

Frequently I receive questions about the impact of a manual migration into a datastore cluster, especially about the impact of the...
frankdenneman
4 min read

Storage DRS and Storage vMotion bugs solved in vSphere 5.0 Update 2.

Today Update 2 for vSphere ESXI 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 were released. I would like to highlight two bugs that...
frankdenneman
1 min read

Multi-NIC vMotion – failover order configuration

After posting the article “designing your vMotion network” I quickly received the question which failover order configuration is better. Is it...
frankdenneman
2 min read

vMotion Futures Survey

If you have a few spare minutes, please fill out the survey about vMotion futures. We are very interested in how...
frankdenneman
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Storage vMotion and the vSphere web-client

The new web client of vSphere 5.1 is my weapon of choice when working in my lab. It contains a lot...
frankdenneman
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Designing your vMotion network

A well designed vMotion network will benefit the environment in many ways. Before vSphere 5, designing a vMotion network was relative...
frankdenneman
3 min read

Calculating the bandwidth usage and duration of a vMotion process?

Every once in a while I get the question if I have a calculator that can determine the lead-time and the...
frankdenneman
2 min read