Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users. vMotion keeps your IT environment up and running, giving you unprecedented flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demands of your business and end users.
- Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
- Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
- Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers with our green IT solutions
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Features
The following is a list of the key features of VMware vMotion.
Performance and Scalability
- Perform live migrations with zero downtime to the end-users. Optimal use of CPU and network resources ensures that the live migrations occur quickly and efficiently.
- Migrate virtual machines running any operating system across any type of hardware and storage supported by VMware vSphere.
- Support for Fibre Channel SAN. Implement live migration of virtual machines utilizing a wide range of Fibre Channel SAN storage systems.
- NAS and iSCSI SAN support. Implement live migration of virtual machines with lower-cost, more easily managed shared storage.
- Customizable CPU compatibility settings. Ensure that virtual machines can be migrated across different versions of hardware. Enable virtual machines to benefit from the latest CPU innovations.
- Enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC). Live migration of virtual machines across different generations of hardware. EVC enables you to migrate virtual machines from older servers to newer servers without disruption or downtime.
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Support for higher latency links. Live migration of virtual machines can now happen across metro or campus distances.
Management
- Migration wizard. Quickly identify the best destination for a virtual machine using real-time information provided by migration wizard.
- Multiple concurrent migrations. Perform multiple concurrent migrations to continuously optimize virtual machine placement across the entire IT environment.
- Priority levels. Assign a priority to each live migration operation to ensure that the most important virtual machines always have access to the resources they need.
- Scheduled Migration Tasks. Automate migrations to happen at pre-defined times, and without an administrator's presence.
- Migration audit trail. Maintain a detailed record of migration operations, including date/time and the administrators responsible for initiating them.
Distributed Resource Optimization
- Dynamic allocation of resources. vMotion is key technology that underpins DRS, which continuously monitors the pooled resources of many servers. It intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines based on pre-defined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities. The result is a self-managing, highly optimized and efficient IT environment with built-in load balancing.
- Distributed journaling. Recover virtual machines faster and more reliably in the event of server failure.
Security
- Fine-grained access control. Secure the environment with configurable, tiered group definitions and fine-grained permissions.
- Integration with Microsoft® Active Directory. Base access controls on existing Microsoft® Active Directory authentication mechanisms.
- Custom roles and permissions. Enhance security and flexibility with user-defined roles. VMware vCenter Server users with appropriate privileges can create custom roles such as night shift operator or backup administrator. Restrict access to the entire inventory of virtual machines, resource pools, and servers, by assigning users to these custom roles.
- Audit trails. Maintain a record of significant configuration changes and the administrator who initiated them. Export reports for event tracking.
- Session management. Discover and, if necessary, terminate VMware vCenter Server user sessions.
