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Example 2
Two hosts on a single vMotion network.
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One host uses local datastores.
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One host uses SAN datastores.
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A single vMotion network connects the two hosts in Example 2. This time, however, one
is connected to a SAN for storage. Within this example, not too much changes with the
data l ows. The only difference is that the second host pushes the received data to the
SAN over its storage network instead of a local datastore. You can see this in detail in
Figure 12.17. Both hosts are connected to the shared storage, and that leads us to
Example 3.
Figure 12.17
Data fl ows over
the vMotion net-
work and then the
storage network
when transfer-
ring between local
and non-local
datastores.
SAN
Datastore
esxi-03a.lab.local
esxi-04a.lab.local
Local
Datastore
VM1
VM1
vSwitch0
vSwitch2
vSwitch0
vSwitch2
VM port
group
VM port
group
ESXi mgmt
network
ESXi mgmt
network
vSwitch1
vSwitch1
VMkernel
port
VMkernel
port
Network switch
vSphere administrator initiates a
joint vMotion and Storage vMotion operation
from esxi-03a.lab.local to esxi-04a.lab.local
vSphere Web Client
