VMware vSphere 6 long distance vSphere vMotion enables Rainpole.com’s virtualized workload mobility use case. However, the data center requires multiple components and technologies to leverage this design to support this functionality.

The following figure shows the logical architecture for Rainpole.com’s solution that enables the live virtualized application mobility the customer wants in their design.

After Rainpole.com carried out an extensive evaluation of the technology options available to them, they concluded that DWDM will provide the most appropriate solution for their architecture based on design factors such as distance between data centers, latency, bandwidth, flexibility, and cost. Other decisions around hardware choice have aligned with the company’s “Cisco first” hardware strategy.

 

The end-to-end architecture leveraged for the virtualized workload mobility solution is shown in the following figure. This figure shows a high-level overview of the physical architecture employed to achieve the live mobility solution for Rainpole.com’s enterprise applications across two data centers. Both data centers have mirrored compute, network, and storage components from VMware and Cisco to efficiently use vSphere vMotion to move virtualized applications across sites without end users experiencing any noticeable impact to application performance. Both data centers are active and are connected by a 10 Gbps DWDM WAN link for IP communication.