Enable live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays. VMware Storage vMotion lets you relocate virtual machine disk files between and across shared storage locations while maintaining continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity.
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Enable Live Migration of Virtual Machine Disk Files
VMware Storage vMotion is a state-of-the-art solution that enables you to perform live migration of virtual machine disk files across heterogeneous storage arrays with complete transaction integrity and no interruption in service for critical applications.
By implementing VMware Storage vMotion in your virtual infrastructure, you gain the ability to perform proactive storage migrations, simplify array refreshes/retirements, improve virtual machine storage performance, and free up valuable storage capacity in your data center.
Watch a technical video on the Enhanced Storage vMotion features in VMware vSphere
Simplify Array Migrations and Storage Upgrades
Purchasing new storage and arrays and coming out of lease or maintenance contracts have traditionally caused cumbersome, time-consuming and disruptive migrations. Storage vMotion helps you eliminate service disruptions with live, automated migration of virtual machine disk files from existing storage to their new destination. Non-disruptive migration of virtual machine disk files to different classes of storage enables cost-effective management of virtual machine disks based on usage and priority policies as part of a strategy for tiered storage.
Dynamically Optimize Storage I/O Performance
Managing storage LUN allocations to support dynamic virtual machine environments can be a very time-consuming process that requires extensive coordination between application owners, virtual machine owners and storage administrators, often resulting in downtime for critical applications. All too often, IT organizations are forced to over-allocate precious storage resources in order to deal with I/O bottlenecks resulting from unusually active virtual machine I/O or poorly configured LUNs. Storage vMotion gives you a better way to optimize storage I/O performance through non-disruptive movement of virtual machine disk files to alternative LUNs that are better architected to deliver the required performance.
Manage Storage Capacity More Efficiently
Inadequate storage allocation for a virtual machine is likely to create application performance issues, but until now there has been no efficient way to reclaim unused or “stranded” storage capacity. Furthermore, increasing or decreasing storage allocation requires several manual steps, resulting in significant service downtime.
Storage vMotion enables efficient storage utilization to avoid performance problems before they occur by non-disruptively moving virtual machines to larger capacity storage LUNs as virtual machine disk files approach their total available LUN size limits. Unused storage capacity can be reclaimed and allocated to more deserving virtual machine applications.
VMware Storage vMotion is available in
Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions of VMware vSphere.
vCenter Server is required to use this feature.
