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kaashifVTech
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Vmotion across the cluster

Hello,

I was just wondering to get myself clear on few things related to vmotion:

- Can I Migrate(hot or cold migration) a VM from one cluster to another cluster in same or different Data-Center?

- what is difference between live and hot migration ?

- please share some good document reltaed to defining vmotion(Vmotion, Dmotion, Enhanced vmotion) limitations. I think I need to work on it more

Regards,

Kaashif

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malaysiavm
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VMotion across cluster could be done. As long as EVC is enable and is compatible to eachc others. Example will be Intel Processors and not mix mode with AMD processors in different cluster. To do this, you need to ensure the vmkernel is able to communicate with the rest of the clusters you wanna vmotion to. At the same time, all the datastore should be presented to each of the host to ensure vmotion success.

For Offline migration, you can move it to any host you like with datastore changes too.

Craig

vExpert 2009

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Craig vExpert 2009 & 2010 Netapp NCIE, NCDA 8.0.1 Malaysia VMware Communities - http://www.malaysiavm.com
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