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vMotion

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is vMotion?

vMotion is a VMware technology that enables live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime. It is commonly used for load balancing, hardware maintenance, and disaster avoidance.

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What other technologies are related to vMotion?

vMotion Complementary Technologies

DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) works in conjunction with vMotion to automatically balance virtual machine workloads across ESXi hosts.

mentioned alongside vMotion in 41% (722) of relevant job posts

HA (High Availability) uses vMotion to restart VMs on other hosts in the event of a host failure. VMs are vMotioned to different hosts after a host failure.

mentioned alongside vMotion in 22% (693) of relevant job posts

Storage vMotion

Storage vMotion is similar to vMotion but migrates virtual machine disks to different datastores without downtime. It's conceptually similar to regular vMotion.

mentioned alongside vMotion in 79% (162) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention vMotion?

Job function

Jobs mentioning vMotion

Orgs mentioning vMotion

Engineer

0% (731) job posts

107 organizations

Administrator

0% (468) job posts

205 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (242) job posts

107 organizations

Customer Engineer

0% (69) job posts

15 organizations

Infrastructure Engineer

0% (57) job posts

24 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning vMotion?

Organization

Industry

Matching Teams

Matching People

General Dynamics Information Technology

Professional Services

Scientific and Technical Services

Lockheed Martin

Manufacturing

Finance and Insurance

Professional Services

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