While at Cisco Live I stopped by the VMware booth to check out the proof-of-concept that VMware and Cisco are currently doing involving extended distance VMotion. VMware’s latest information about it is here. The idea behind this is that you can distribute your CPU resources in multiple sites. This should be especially useful for those running out of space, power, and/or cooling in existing data centers. Now you can split your infrastructure without losing the benefits of virtualization.
The great thing about this is that it doesn’t require anything special. No magical network hardware. No software updates or changes. So what are they testing?
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