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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

VMware on Monday announced plans for a new VMware Infrastructure release that will be available in the fourth quarter. The release was described by Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product ...

VMware's shindig has become the industry's next-gen data center show -- and this year's event was more revealing than ever As I joined the Tokyo-subway crush of identically backpacked conference ...