vMotion Review - why 3.4 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Aug 14, 2019

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What is vMotion?

vMotion is a visualization management, resource allocation and performance management solution for your business. The software was developed and released by VMware, Inc., headquartered in California, United States. Its proprietary visualization management services include availability and configuration management.

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Who is it best for?

vMotion is extensive and flexible enough to suit needs of all business sizes and types. There is also no restriction of industry and it can be deployed in any business that needs advanced and cutting-edge visualization management services.

Some common industries and sectors in which vMotion has been deployed successfully include financial service, education, software development, non-profit, and retail and wholesale etc. The software can guarantee reliable and efficient resource allocation for your visualization hardware and software.

Customers of vMotion include local as well as international clients and the list includes such names as ABB Grain Ltd, ABN AMRO N.V. Singapore, American Tire Distributors, Arizona Department of Economic Security, and Computer Concepts Ltd etc.

Main features and functionalities

The difference between this and other visualization solution for VMware is that this one does not offer any performance management features. However, the software does feature a variety of tools and applications for configuration and availability management.

For efficient configuration of your hardware and software resources, the software offers the features of dynamic data-state allocation, dynamic I/O resource allocation, dynamic memory allocation, and migration modeling. Dynamic nature of these features allows you to continue with resource allocation without disrupting the ongoing services.

Availability features of vMotion include such features as love storage migration, live VM migration, migration priority levels, and scheduled migration. You also have the flexible security service of user defined policy enforcement. Support for all major operating systems and wide range of hardware options makes the software suitable for varying technical needs.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $23 per license. ITQlick pricing score is 3 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for vMotion.

Pros

• Dynamic allocation services of the software allow you to allocate resources and memory while the processes are running.
• Security service of the software is flexible and allows you to implement user defined policy enforcement.
• The software supports all major operating systems as well as wide range of hardware.
• vMotion allows to precisely identify the optimal placement for virtual machine.
• Virtual machines can be optimized within resource pools automatically.

Cons

• There is no module for performance management on the software.
• Unlike its competitors, the software does not offer any reporting capabilities.
• Configuration features of the software do not include auto recovery, configuration history, and NIC teaming capabilities.
• There are no performance management features of adaptive analysis, memory compression, and continuous resource allocation on the software.

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of vMotion vs alternative software solutions.

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