Tag: vMotion

VMworld 2013: vMotion over the WAN (Futures)

August 27, 2013

This was a pretty short (30 minute) session on possible futures of vMotion, which focused on vmotion between datacenters and the cloud. To be clear, these features are not in vSphere 5.5, and may never see the light of day. But maybe in vSphere 6.0 or beyond we will see...

VMworld 2013: vSphere 5.5 DRS New Features, Future Directions

August 26, 2013

This is my first technical session of VMworld 2013, VSVC5280. It covered new vSphere 5.5 DRS features, explained why DRS may not always "perfectly" balance your cluster. vSphere 5.5 has a lot of new storage features, and DRS has been enhanced to be aware of VSAN and vFlash technologies. As...