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Hi Experts,<br />
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We recently purchased essentials plus licensing and have not deployed vcenter yet. We were also looking into VSAN or other small SAN, but see that Vsphere 5.1 enables the use of VMotion between datastores without having Shared Storage. <br />
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Has anyone had any experience using this feature and if so what is the benefit to a small environment to use this feature instead of shared storage?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi Experts,

We recently purchased essentials plus licensing and have not deployed vcenter yet. We were also looking into VSAN or other small SAN, but see that Vsphere 5.1 enables the use of VMotion between datastores without having Shared Storage. 

Has anyone had any experience using this feature and if so what is the benefit to a small environment to use this feature instead of shared storage?

Thanks

Vmotion without Shared Storage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.