You got that right. Not only does VMotion require a SAN backend, but 95% of the ESX implementations use all SAN storage on the back end. Using P2V, you take a physical server that was content on running on 36GB of local Disk and you move that onto your SAN infrastructure. I have had clients that have purchased up to 72TB just to support a Windows Server virtualization project. Not a bad move by EMC at all... I'm surprised they have let VMware ESX remain as vendor agnostic as they have...
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"Oh, and it requires a SAN back end"
You got that right. Not only does VMotion require a SAN backend, but 95% of the ESX implementations use all SAN storage on the back end. Using P2V, you take a physical server that was content on running on 36GB of local Disk and you move that onto your SAN infrastructure. I have had clients that have purchased up to 72TB just to support a Windows Server virtualization project. Not a bad move by EMC at all... I'm surprised they have let VMware ESX remain as vendor agnostic as they have...
Scott Herold