All posts tagged VMotion

How to quickly discover a "VM to Resource Pool" mapping

Everyone knows the situation in where a (s)VMotion asks you to select a Resource Pool. I would love to see that VMware automatically selects the current VM’s Resource Pool but unfortunately we have to make a selection since it defaults to the cluster. When we leave it to default it obviously causes the VM to […]

VMware VMotion, how fast can we go?

Lately while I was testing out specific failover behaviors in vSphere, I accidently discovered that VMotion Speeds (MB/s) are logged in the the /var/log/vmkernel, now that’s cool! Issue the command tail -f /var/log/vmkernel and than initiate a VMotion. You should get info like this: Host VMotionning to (receiving) Nov  7 21:13:14 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 10:06:06:18.104 cpu3:9131)VMotionRecv: 226: 1257624621919023 […]

The Quest of Encrypted VMotion

Last week I was dreaming (don’t even ask…. 😉 about the new VMotion encryption technology that VMware has implemented in vSphere. Since that moment I decided that I want to know more about this feature since there isn’t much said about it at the moment.   Let’s go back before vSphere: Ever since VMotion exists […]