Cross Continental vMotion with VMware NSX and IBM Softlayer Cloud

Ten years ago, using VMware vMotion to migrate a Virtual Machine from one server to another, even in the same rack without interruption, was considered black magic, prompting raised eyebrows and a flurry of questions.  Today, it takes quite a bit more than just a standard host-to-host vMotion to solicit a similar response.Recently however, we received a reaction similar to the days of old, rich with the nostalgia of the early days of vMotion. Continue reading