VMworld 2015/vSphere 6 vMotion

version history
v1.0 - vMotion

v2.5 - Storage vMotion

v5.0 - Multi-NIC vMotion, Stun During Page Send (SDPS)

v5.1 - vMotion without shared storage

v5.5 - VPLEX Metro support, IPv6 Improvements

v6.0 - (start with change compute and storage) => vMotion across switching boundaries, vMotion across networking (L3) boundaries (subnets) (aka routed vMotion), vMotion across management boundaries, vMotion across geographical boundaries, Replication Assisted vMotion

vSphere 6.0 is a big step towards vMotion Anywhere

gauge performance
migration time (memory, disk, totla)

switch-over time

impact on guest applications
 * application latency and throughput during vMotion
 * time to resume to normal level of performance

Debugging
grep VMotion /var/log/vmkernel

vMotion Futures

 * Cross-Cloud vMoiton
 * Non Volatile Memory (NVM)
 * Active / Passive Storage Replication
 * Support for RDMA