Is it possible to Vmotion and storage vmotion between different DC in same VC?

[ShyjuPS]

Hi Team,

Could anyone suggest me if vmotion and storage vmtion is possible between  two different data centers part of same Virtual center server?. The Vcenter I am referring is 4.1 and later. The vmkernal port group is  in same VLAN and both the DC hosts  will be using same shared  SAN storage?

Thanks in advance

Cheers,

Shyju.

[AndySimmons]

If you mean the vSphere datacenter objects, no, you cannot vMotion between those.

If you mean physical datacenters, it's possible, but it's not trivial. Long distance vMotion was demoed at VMworld a couple years ago by VMware/Cisco, and I know F5 has been showing this off for a little while too. Check the HCL for your SAN -- they've added a category for metro cluster storage.

Duncan Epping did a nice overview of metro/stretched clusters that covers the basics from the HA side of things, and he has a couple good links in there.

[Virtualinfra]

Welcome to the community.

Yes its possible.

Refer the below KB,

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102121...

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2000948

Also refer the pervious post blog link from yellow bricks.

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