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You can do cold migration that is also sVMotion. Provided, common datastore is configured.
Live migration is not possible in any cases.
The purpose of VMware hierarchy and the purpose of datacenter should be be understand here. It is as good as of having 2 separate datacenters in a city. Will you be able to move your infrastructure without shuttingdown? ofcourse not..
However you can build application clusters, across datacenter. That doesent mean the VM migration.
Yes, we can move VM from one DC to another DC through VMotion
With vSphere 6 and above you can do Cross DC/VC migration but there are strict requirements to be met:
It obviously needs planning and the easiest way will still be to do a cold migration or export/import.
Yes, We can vMotion between 2 DC starting from vsphere 6
Yes i can becaue it enables live Migration from on point to another without down time