The defining feature that elevated VMware from being just about server consolidation to encompassing the realm of business continuity was vMotion. With vMotion, no longer did a datacenter need to ...

One of the things I like about being in the IT industry is the sense of community. And as both VMware and virtualization in general continue to expand in popularity, the virtualization community ...

One user's assertion in this blog about the safety of live VM migration sparked a lot of reader dissension, some of which was based on solid technical arguments and some on the kind of FUD that may ...

VMware Cloud on AWS makes a number of common VMware features, such as Site Recovery and vMotion, available on its hybrid cloud platform. This can make the transition to the hybrid cloud service easier ...

If you've never had the opportunity to see VMware's VMotion in action, you might want to check out this video clip published by Dell on its VMware Alliance Center site. Scott Hanson from the Dell ...

VMware and Cisco have announced support for a solution that allows for virtualised applications to be shared over a network up to 200 kilometres apart. Described as 'Long Distance VMotion', the ...

Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMware’s VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart as 125 miles. Cisco and VMware created some buzz at the VMworld show in San Francisco ...

VMotion can be started manually (for let’s say a change window) or dynamically, based on resource usage, by VMware’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS). If a single VMware server’s CPU usage gets above ...

The newest release of VMware, announced this week, includes a data migration capability that users have wanted for years, one that analysts say should prompt storage vendors to change the way they ...