VMware虚拟架构解决方案范例.ppt

This diagram shows what happens when you migrate storage in vSphere 4. First, upon initiating a migration, vSphere copies all virtual machine files except the disks from the old virtual machine directory to a new directory on the destination datastore. Second, vSphere enables Changed Block Tracking on the virtual machine’s disk. Changed block tracking tracks changes to the disk so that vSphere knows which regions of the disk include data. vSphere stores this data in a bitmap that can reside either in memory or as a file. For Storage VMotion, vSphere usually keep the change bitmap in memory,