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3 Click Encryption, and select an option from the Encrypted VMotion drop-down menu.
Disabled Do not use encrypted vMotion.
Opportunistic Use encrypted vMotion if source and destination hosts support it. Only
ESXi hosts of version 6.5 and later use encrypted vMotion.
Required Allow only encrypted vMotion. If the source or destination host does not
support encrypted vMotion, migration with vMotion fails.
Virtual Machine Conditions and Limitations for vMotion
To migrate virtual machines with vMotion, the virtual machine must meet certain network, disk, CPU,
USB, and other device requirements.
The following virtual machine conditions and limitations apply when you use vMotion:
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The source and destination management network IP address families must match. You cannot
migrate a virtual machine from a host that is registered to vCenter Server with an IPv4 address to a
host that is registered with an IPv6 address.
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If virtual CPU performance counters are enabled, you can migrate virtual machines only to hosts that
have compatible CPU performance counters.
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You can migrate virtual machines that have 3D graphics enabled. If the 3D Renderer is set to
Automatic, virtual machines use the graphics renderer that is present on the destination host. The
renderer can be the host CPU or a GPU graphics card. To migrate virtual machines with the 3D
Renderer set to Hardware, the destination host must have a GPU graphics card.
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You can migrate virtual machines with USB devices that are connected to a physical USB device on
the host. You must enable the devices for vMotion.
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You cannot use migration with vMotion to migrate a virtual machine that uses a virtual device backed
by a device that is not accessible on the destination host. For example, you cannot migrate a virtual
machine with a CD drive backed by the physical CD drive on the source host. Disconnect these
devices before you migrate the virtual machine.
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You cannot use migration with vMotion to migrate a virtual machine that uses a virtual device backed
by a device on the client computer. Disconnect these devices before you migrate the virtual machine.
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You can migrate virtual machines that use Flash Read Cache if the destination host also provides
Flash Read Cache. During the migration, you can select whether to migrate the virtual machine cache
or drop it, for example, when the cache size is large.
Swap File Location Compatibility
Virtual machine swap file location affects vMotion compatibility in different ways depending on the version
of ESXi running on the virtual machine's host.
You can configure ESXi 6.0 or later hosts to store virtual machine swap files with the virtual machine
configuration file, or on a local swap file datastore specified for that host.
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