A question we get from customers all the time is how can they protect their VMware deployments from disaster but at the same time have the ability to seamlessly move Virtual Machines between sites for load balancing or if a migration from an old location to a new location is necessary

EMC VMware and Cisco demonstrated the geographic mobility of Virtual Machines at previous VMworlds and you may have seen the announcements around the release of VPLEX Geo in the last days

Working with VMware EMC is looking to deliver a set of new solutions that will take the current metro distance solution and stretch it out to previously unviable asynchronous distances

The two White Papers enclosed provide an introduction to using VPLEX technology with vSphere and the capabilities and current considerations