By: Vmjfk

Vmjfk — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:03:50 +0000

Long Distance vMotion, or vMotion over Distance, or Application Migration over Distance, (this is known by many names) is not something dreamed up in a lab and pushed upon the market. Like VDI, the market came up with the idea first, then started pushing VMware and EMC to support it. Why customers want it is fairly easy to see; they want to move their datacenter where they need it, when they need it, without borders. This enables disaster avoidance (for those disasters that announce themselves sufficiently prior to occuring, such as hurricanes and maybe even tornados), regulatory freedoms (if a state law impacts data processing activities, move the offending activity to another state…don’t laugh, it’s happened before), economic agility (move to where the power costs are cheapest) and network efficiencies (put the load nearest the people who are using it. But mostly what I’ve heard from potential customers is that they just bought a new datacenter to expand capacity, and the want to move the loads into and out of it freely, as they see fit, without a forklift.
As popular as vMotion has become, farther vMotion will be even more popular.

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By: Vmjfk