Information About Virtualized Workload Mobility (DC to DC vMotion)
This section describes the Virtualized Workload Mobility (DC to DC vMotion) configurations and includes the following topics:
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Stretched Cluster
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Split Cluster
Stretched Cluster
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A stretched cluster is a cluster with ESX/ESXi hosts in different physical locations. |
In an environment where the same Cisco Nexus 1000 instance spans two data centers, this configuration allows you to have Virtual Ethernet Modules (VEMs) in different data centers be part of the same vCenter Server cluster.
By choosing this configuration, you are ensure that the VEMs in either data center (in a two data center environment) are a part of the same Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) / VMware High Availability (VMW HA) / Fault Tolerance (FT) domain that allows for multiple parallel virtual machine (VM) migration events.
Split Cluster
The Split Cluster configuration is an alternate to the Stretched Cluster deployment. With this configuration, the deployment consists of one or more clusters on either physical site with no cluster that contains VEMs in multiple data centers. While this configuration allows for VM migration between physical data centers, these events are not automatically scheduled by DRS.