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> vMotion is about host failure

No? It's also about load balancing and draining compute/storage resources in preparation for maintenance.

Most pertinently: as long as your alternative doesn't cover any vMotion use-cases, customers will remain 'in talks' with Broadcom...

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I haven't worked on these systems for a long time. As I mentioned to another user, during testing, we'd pull out server blades to see if this mechanism works. The blades would be connected to the same storage array. Even this VMware website says "vSphere vMotion enables zero-downtime, live migration of workloads from one server to another so your users can continue to access the systems they need to stay productive." https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere...

Fun that people -still- don't understand the feature set that VMware provides.

He/She is thinking about VMware Fault Tolerance

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