VMware for Beginners — vMotion and DRS — Part 11

BDRSuite
2 min readJan 4, 2023

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Read on:

VMware for Beginners — Overview of vSphere: Part 1
VMware for Beginners — vSphere Installation Requirements: Part 2
VMware for Beginners — How to Install vSphere: Part 3
VMware for Beginners — vSphere Networking: Part 4
VMware for Beginners — vSphere Datastores — Part 5
VMware for Beginners — vSphere Virtual Machines — Part 6
VMware for Beginners — How to Install vCenter: Part 7
VMware for Beginners — Datacenter and Clusters — Part 8
VMware for Beginners — How to Create and Configure iSCSI Datastores: Part 9(a)
VMware for Beginners — How to Create and Configure iSCSI Datastores : Part 9(b)
VMware for Beginners — How to Create NFS Datastores — Part 10(a)
VMware for Beginners — How to Create NFS Datastores: Part 10(b)

In the last VMware for Beginners article, we created iSCSI and NFS Data-stores, and since now we have a shared Storage, we can install our vMotion Network and enable it.

In this article about vMotion and DRS, we will learn the following:

  • What is vMotion
  • How to create a vMotion VMKernel network
  • What is DRS
  • How to create a Cluster DRS

What is vMotion?

vSphere vMotion allows you to migrate workloads from one server to another without downtime, so your users will never know the difference.
Live Migration is a high-availability feature that allows you to automatically move virtual machines from one server to another without any downtime.

Read this article to know more…

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