Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran, speaker, author, blogger and VMware expert with more than 25 years of experience. VMware vSphere ESXi’s vMotion feature has proved to be one of the most ...

One of the most important parts of VMware's vSphere offering is the collective migration technology, VMotion. In the current landscape, this includes migrating VMs from one host to another as well as ...

We ran into the following problem: we added a new LUN to our small SAN when we upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0. We wanted to move a number of VMs from one LUN to the other using storage vMotion. One ...

Six is a party and at number six are three features I put at a tie: ESXi Firewall, vSphere Web Client and Storage vMotion. Let's start with Storage vMotion. Up until VMware vSphere 5 you were unable ...

If VMware is of any interest to you, you’ve probably been consumed with the vSphere 5.0 licensing changes, both the ones announced during the product’s initial launch and those revealed later, after ...

EMC VPLEX doubles the distance that customers can non-disruptively move VMware vSphere vMotion workloads between active-active data centers—up-to 200 kilometers (km). EMC expands VPLEX Family with a ...

With scalability improvements, network and storage I/O control, and countless other enhancements, VMware continues to redefine the possibilities for server virtualization VMware has never been a ...

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with ...

I think you need to roll right back to basics tbh. Can you vmotion at all on any NIC? Can you use the "problem" NICs for other traffic? PITA as it is, can you load/try another OS? I think you need to ...