Whats new vSphere 5.0 at svmotion

vSphere 5.0 uses a mirrored-mode approach for Storage vMotion. In this new architecture,

Storage vMotion copies disk blocks between source and destination and replaces the need for the iterative pre-copy phase. This was used in the Changed Block Tracking (CBT) method in earlier versions of vSphere. With I/O mirroring, a single-pass copy of the disk blocks from the source to the destination is performed. I/O mirroring ensures that any newly changed blocks in the source are mirrored at the destination. There is also a block-level bitmap that identifies hot and cold blocks of the disk, or whether the data in a given block is already mirrored in the destination disk.

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The Software-Defined Data Center

Software-Defined Architectures That Deliver Impact Today a software-defined architecture leverages logical infrastructure services that are abstracted from, as opposed to integrated with, the underlying hardware. Several of today’s largest technology companies in the Internet and social network space leverage this approach to drive aggressive cost savings and improve manageability for certain types of workloads. These hyperscale architectures use commodity hardware components, which are then combined with proprietary technologies such as custom applications, platforms, and containers. The final service. For example, social media and proprietary public cloud service—is then provided to customers. However, for the SDDC to be most applicable to enterprises, it must meet four key requirements—key pillars of the VMware architecture for the SDDC: First, it must run traditional applications, without re-architecting them, in addition to cloud-native applications. Second, it must enable ...

Reconnect of Vcenter which enabled a re synch with Vcloud,

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