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    Is it possible to do any kind of vm migration between two Hyper-V host over the network? Two Hyper-V host on the same subnet in a same domain but on the network. There's no SAN between them, all VMs are stored locally on each host. Thanks.

    Thang Mo

    Monday, October 15, 2012 8:16 PM

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    Hi,

    > Is it possible to do any kind of vm migration between two Hyper-V host over the network?

    Of course, it is possible. In Windows server 2012 you can perform a live migration of a virtual machine between two non-clustered servers running Hyper-V when you are only using local storage for the virtual machine. (This is sometimes referred to as a “shared nothing” live migration. In this case, the virtual machines storage is mirrored to the destination server over the network, and then the virtual machine is migrated, while it continues to run and provide network services.

    Also in previous of Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, you can also perform migration of a virtual machine between two Hyper-V host servers. However, it’s not live migration.

    For more information please refer to following MS articles:

    Hyper-V Migration Guide (Windows Server 2008 or 2008R2)
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(v=ws.10).aspx
    Hyper-V Migration Guide: Migrating Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 or 2008R2)
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849854(v=ws.10).aspx
    Configure and Use Live Migration on Non-clustered Virtual Machines (Windows Server 2012)
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134199.aspx

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    • Proposed as answer by VR38DETTMVP Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:27 AM
    • Marked as answer by ThangMo Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:46 PM
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:43 AM

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