Don’t we all remember when we witnessed our first vMotion and realized which awesome things this made possible in virtualization?!  In vSphere 6 vMotion even got better!

vMotion version history

First I’d like to give a short overview about what was already achieved in previous versions of vSphere.

vSphere 5.0:

• Multi-NIC vMotion
  Migration time reduced by making Multi-NIC vMotion possible.
• Stun During Page Send
  Stunned source machine if needed to progress pre-copy phase of vMotion, so the memory modification rate stays below the precopy transfer rate and the pre-copy will eventually succeed.

vSphere 5.1

• vMotion without shared storage
  Allows for moving the VM simultaneously to another computing & storage resource at the same time.