vSphere 8 was announced at VMware Explore 2022 in San Francisco. Part of this new major release are vMotion updates. vMotion is extensively developed to support new workloads and is one of the key enablers for VMware’s multi-cloud approach. Whenever a workload is live-migrated between vSphere and/or VMware Cloud infrastructures, vMotion logic is involved.
vMotion In-App Notifications
With the release of vSphere 7, the vMotion logic was updated to greatly reduce the performance impact on applications during live migrations. Significant work was done to minimize the stun-time, aka the switch-over time, where the last memory pages and checkpoint info are transferred from source to destination. (more…)