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Can a virtual distributed switch span accross clusters in different datacentres?

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No, the datacenter object is the boundary for the distributed switch. Hopefully in the future VMware will deliver a version of vmotion that works across datacenters, or a distributed switch that spans datacenters.

My sometimes relevant blog on data center networking and virtualization : http://www.heathreynolds.com

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No, the datacenter object is the boundary for the distributed switch. Hopefully in the future VMware will deliver a version of vmotion that works across datacenters, or a distributed switch that spans datacenters.

My sometimes relevant blog on data center networking and virtualization : http://www.heathreynolds.com
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