This ESG Lab report explores how EMC VPLEX can be used to create a heterogeneous pool of storage resources that can be accessed and shared over distance. VPLEX-enabled VMotion over distance and the performance of SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server applications are examined as a mix of disk arrays spread over two data centers 100 km apart is turned into a centrally managed, distributed storage federation. To read the report, go to EMC VPLEX Metro and VMware ESX: Enabling 100 km VMotion with New Distributed Storage Federation.