Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users. VMware VMotion keeps your IT environment up and running, giving you unprecedented flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demands of your business and end users.
- Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation.
- Decrease planned and unplanned downtime for improved business continuity.
- Run fewer servers and dynamically power down unused servers to reduce your energy costs.
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Features
The following is a list of the key features of VMware VMotion. For a comprehensive list of VMware Infrastructure features download the key features summary.
Performance and Scalability
- Perform live migrations with downtime unnoticeable to the end-users. Optimal use of CPU and network resources ensures that the live migrations occur quickly and efficiently.
Interoperability
- Migrate virtual machines running any operating system across any type of hardware and storage supported by VMware ESX.
- Support for Fibre Channel SAN. Implement live migration of virtual machines utilizing a wide range of up to 4GB Fibre Channel SAN storage systems.
- NAS and iSCSI SAN support. Implement live migration of virtual machines with lower-cost, more easily managed shared storage.
- Customizable CPU compatibility settings. Ensure that virtual machines can be migrated across different versions of hardware. Enable virtual machines to benefit from the latest CPU innovations.
Management
- Migration wizard. Quickly identify the best destination for a virtual machine using real-time information provided by migration wizard.
- Multiple concurrent migrations. Perform multiple concurrent migrations to continuously optimize virtual machine placement across the entire IT environment.
- Priority levels. Assign a priority to each live migration operation to ensure that the most important virtual machines always have access to the resources they need.
- Scheduled Migration Tasks. Automate migrations to happen at pre-defined times, and without an administrator’s presence.
- Migration audit trail. Maintain a detailed record of migration operations, including date/time and the administrators responsible for initiating them.
Distributed Resource Optimization
- Resource management for virtual machines. Allocate processor and memory resources to virtual machines running on the same physical servers. Establish minimum, maximum, and proportional resource shares for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth. Modify allocations while virtual machines are running. Enable applications to dynamically acquire more resources to accommodate peak performance.
- Dynamic allocation of resources. VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines based on pre-defined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities. The result is a self-managing, highly optimized and efficient IT environment with built-in load balancing.
- Distributed journaling. Recover virtual machines faster and more reliably in the event of server failure.
High Availability
- Automatic restart of virtual machines with VMware HA. Provide an easy to use and cost-effective failover solution.
Security
- Fine-grained access control. Secure the environment with configurable, tiered group definitions and fine-grained permissions.
- Integration with Microsoft® Active Directory. Base access controls on existing Microsoft® Active Directory authentication mechanisms.
- Custom roles and permissions. Enhance security and flexibility with user-defined roles. VirtualCenter users with appropriate privileges can create custom roles such as night shift operator or backup administrator. Restrict access to the entire inventory of virtual machines, resource pools and servers by assigning users to these custom roles.
- Audit trails. Maintain a record of significant configuration changes and the administrator who initiated them. Export reports for event tracking.
- Session management. Discover and if necessary terminate VirtualCenter user sessions.
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