1. A method, comprising: determining, at a data center management device, that a virtual machine should be moved from a first physical system to a second physical system; sending, from the data center management device, a first set of instructions to service appliances at the first and second physical systems to perform state synchronization with one another; sending, from the data center management device, a second set of instructions to instantiate a copy of the virtual machine in the second physical system; and shutting down the virtual machine in the first physical system.