Many different approaches to architecting a VMware based hybrid cloud exist depending on the specific use case requirements and technologies employed, but the end goal is always the same. That is, a hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally.

VMware vSphere® 6 brings new enhancements to VMware vSphere vMotion®, giving businesses new and more flexible workload mobility options and new hybrid cloud architecture options. The newly enhanced vSphere vMotion capabilities of migrating workloads long distances and across geographic boundaries provide significant improvements for workload mobility use cases, enabling the ability to migrate workloads both on-premises and off-premises.

This newly enhanced workload mobility makes the notion of the hybrid cloud even more attractive to small and large businesses. The possibilities for disaster recovery, disaster avoidance, and distributed application architectures are numerous. What if there is a hurricane coming? Use vSphere vMotion to migrate to another data center 200 km away. What if your on-premises data center runs out of capacity or needs to temporarily burst into another facility? Free up some capacity locally by using vSphere vMotion to migrate virtual machines elsewhere by obtaining capacity on-demand from a VMware Cloud Provider™. With vSphere 6 long distance vSphere vMotion technology, workloads are more portable, more agile, and less tied to your physical data center than ever before.