vMotion is really one of the coolest and most productive features of a virtualization. The ability to move a server while turned on and in production to another host is just a mind boggling feature in the IT world. I mean really, how many of you have wished that you could take down a server mid day to add ram or replace a dead power supply.

Richard Garsthagen from www.run-virtual.com whipped up a small program called VMjuggler to show off this feature to attendees at Microsoft’s TechEd forum in Barcelona. He showed it off by having his software move around a Windows 2003 64 bit server running SQL 2005 and a program called DBhammer slam it with requests. He did this for all 5 days of the event, moving the server around every 10 seconds. Imagine showing this off to your boss or to someone who his hesitant about trusting an ESX solution for even a SQL platform. That should shut anyone up who has any doubts.

So once he releases this i’ll be loading it at the day job to prove those nay sayers wrong :)

Thanks again Richard!