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vMotion Enhancements in vSphere 6.0 – Long Distance vMotion, Across vSwitches and Across vCenters

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

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During the Day 2 keynote some VMware vSphere 6.0 has been announced by Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President, Software-Defined Data Center Division. The vMotion technology, which has been here for about a decade was continuously improved in previous releases. An example in vSphere 5.0 with multi-NIC vMotion function and also vMotion without shared storage.

But let's see what vSphere 6.0 will bring (when it will be released).

vSphere 6.0 vMotion Enhancements

vMotion Across Virtual Switches

You're no longer restricted by the network created with the switch. vMotion across virtual switches (standard or VDS). It transfers all the metadata from the VDS ports (port groups etc) with the VM during the vMotion process. It's transparent to the VMs (VMs are not aware that they are moved) – no downtime for applications.

Requirements:

  • L2 VM network connectivity

It's possible to move VMs:

  • from VSS to VSS
  • from VSS to VDS
  • from VDS to VDS

vMotion Across vCenters

Allows to change compute, storage, networks, and management. In single operation you're able to move a VM from vCenter 1 where this VM is placed on certain Host, lays on some datastore and is present in some resource pool, into a vCenter 2 where the VM lays on different datastore, is on a different host and it's part of the different resource pool.

vMotion across vCenters

Long-Distance vMotion

vMotion supports 150 ms RTT (previously only 10ms). Long-Distance vMotion can move VMs from your datacenter into a cloud data center or into another data center owned by your company.  This makes me thin when to use this kind of vMotion and why?

When To Use Long-distance vMotion?

Some of the use cases would be…

  • Disaster Avoidance
  • Permanent Migrations
  • SRM/DA testing
  • Multi-site Load balancing
  • From local datacenter into vCloud Air

vMotion using routed networks

The v6.0 of vSphere will allow using routed networks for vMotion networks, which is currently impossible.

The vSphere public beta allows work with this technology already. You can check out the vSphere Public Beta 6.0 page here.

While myself I'm not currently present at VMworld I managed to publish some posts already. Here is the list.

  • VMware EVO:RAIL – New hyper-converged solution by VMware
  • What's New in VMware NSX For vSphere 6.1
  • VMware OpenStack Integration
  • Infinio Accelerator v2.0 Announced with FC, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and Environments with Multiple Protocols
  • VMworld 2014 FlowGrab Beta Launching Centralized Workflow Repository
  • Fujitsu One Of the First OEM Partners Announcing VMware EVO: RAIL Integration
  • vRealize Cloud Management … 
  • vMotion Enhancements in vSphere 6.0  (this post)

Stay tuned via RSS or Twitter.

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About Vladan SEGET

This website is maintained by Vladan SEGET. Vladan is as an Independent consultant, professional blogger, vExpert x16, Veeam Vanguard x9, VCAP-DCA/DCD, ESX Virtualization site has started as a simple bookmarking site, but quickly found a large following of readers and subscribers.

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Comments

  1. Eugenio Rumnit says

    November 21, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    Like your articles. I was wondering I need to setup a stagging vlan where I install and patch servers before moving them to the production network. Do you have any tips / docs on how I would best accomplish this?

    Thanks

  2. Maciej says

    November 12, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Hi,
    Vladan i know it’s a trifle but RTT latency for long distance vmotion is at least 150ms (not 100ms).
    Besides, u’re doing a great job.
    Best regards

    • Vladan SEGET says

      November 12, 2016 at 3:57 pm

      Thanks Maciej,

      I updated the post -:).
      Best,
      Vladan

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