The vSphere vMotion feature enables customers to live-migrate workloads from source to destination ESXi hosts. Over time, VMware have developed vMotion to support new technologies. The vSphere 7 release is no exception to that, as VMWare greatly improved the vMotion feature. The vMotion enhancements in vSphere 7 include a reduced performance impact during the live-migration and a reduced stun time.

vSphere is the perfect platform to host large virtual machines (VMs) — also referred to as “Monster” VMs — with the current per VM resource maximums set to 256 vCPU’s and 6 TB of memory. The enhanced logic for vMotion in vSphere 7 overcomes many challenges and allows us to live-migrate large workloads without significant impact on performance or availability.

The improvements made in vMotion with vSphere 7 are enormous and greatly reduce the cost paid for a vMotion. Customer don’t need to anything to enjoy the new and improved vMotion logic, other than to upgrade the infrastructure to vSphere 7.