Storage vMotion is for moving between SAN's, or between LUN's on a single SAN (say to move from RAID6 to RAID10 if the performance profile dictates). It also allows you to move between thick and thin ...

Storage vMotion is often derided as an unnecessary feature you'll never need -- don't believe that for a second An enormous chunk of the money we spend on IT infrastructure goes to avoiding downtime — ...

We ran into the following problem: we added a new LUN to our small SAN when we upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0. We wanted to move a number of VMs from one LUN to the other using storage vMotion. One ...

Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran, speaker, author, blogger and VMware expert with more than 25 years of experience. VMware vSphere ESXi’s vMotion feature has proved to be one of the most ...

One of the best technologies for vSphere is the virtual machine migration technology, vMotion. vMotion received plenty of fanfare and has been a boon to virtualized environments for nearly five years.

Six is a party and at number six are three features I put at a tie: ESXi Firewall, vSphere Web Client and Storage vMotion. Let's start with Storage vMotion. Up until VMware vSphere 5 you were unable ...

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 ...

Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform from Dell/Equalogic to Nutanix. The migration not only simplifies IT, but also ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

The launch of vSphere 5 and its new storage related features will set the precedent for a complete rethink on how a new datacenter’s storage infrastructure should be designed and deployed. vSphere 5’s ...