Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies » vmotion http://froebe.net/blog Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:12:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Anybody running VMware’s VMotion in production? http://froebe.net/blog/2008/08/25/anybody-running-vmwares-vmotion-in-production/ http://froebe.net/blog/2008/08/25/anybody-running-vmwares-vmotion-in-production/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:03 +0000 Jason L Froebe http://froebe.net/blog/?p=672 Don’t know what VMware VMotion is? VMotion allows you to easily move one virtual machine to another VMware ESX host that is connected to the same storage mechanism (presumably SAN) with no downtime. Looks promising :)

Image courtesy of VMware

Image courtesy of VMware

Dell has a demonstration using Microsoft SQL Server where they move the live SQL Server from one blade to another with no outage:

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