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Demo: vMotion

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Demo: vMotion

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'll demonstrate how to carry out a vMotion migration of a virtual machine. So here you can see, we have a virtual machine that's been created called vMotion Demo, and I have two ESXi hosts present in my cluster, and you don't need a cluster for vMotion. Right, really the only thing you need for vMotion is shared storage, a properly configured VMkernel port, you need vCenter, and you need the same networks, on both the source and destination host. So at the moment, I can see that this virtual machine is currently running on host 192.168.199.100. So it's running on my first host. Now, I can just carry out a very simple vMotion migration by right-clicking this VM and choosing Migrate, and the very first option is to change the compute resource only. That's a vMotion, right, I'm not moving the virtual disks from one datastore to another, and I'm not doing a Storage vMotion, I'm doing a vMotion. I'm moving it from one ESXi host to another, but all of the…

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