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It was old advice in the old days about not supported because of high latency, but networks are usually much better today!<br />
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Providing you have good network communications, and you can vmkping between vMotion VMKernel IP Addresses, you are good to vMotion!<br />
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We even have long distance vMotion now!
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It was old advice in the old days about not supported because of high latency, but networks are usually much better today!

Providing you have good network communications, and you can vmkping between vMotion VMKernel IP Addresses, you are good to vMotion!

We even have long distance vMotion now!

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DO I need to create a static route?
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Our Vmware environment considt of a Windows based vCenter 6 update 3 server and 110 ESXi 6 update 2 hosts. We are in the process of redesigning out network and want to &nbsp;finally break out our vmotion network into its own vlan. The blades nic layout would look like below. I have read the having vmotion across vlans / subnets is not supported due to the risk of latency. Yet I have see other KB article stating you can do it yet it is not recommended Thoughts?<br />
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vmnic0 - mgmt<br />
vmnic1 - mgmt<br />
vmnic2 - vmotion<br />
vmnic3 - vmotion<br />
vmnic4 - guest traffic<br />
vmnic5 &nbsp;-guest traffic
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Our Vmware environment considt of a Windows based vCenter 6 update 3 server and 110 ESXi 6 update 2 hosts. We are in the process of redesigning out network and want to  finally break out our vmotion network into its own vlan. The blades nic layout would look like below. I have read the having vmotion across vlans / subnets is not supported due to the risk of latency. Yet I have see other KB article stating you can do it yet it is not recommended Thoughts?

vmnic0 - mgmt
vmnic1 - mgmt
vmnic2 - vmotion
vmnic3 - vmotion
vmnic4 - guest traffic
vmnic5  -guest traffic

vMotion between subnets

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.