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Learning Hyper-V

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Learning Hyper-V

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Hyper-V
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Live migrating a VM


There are multiple options for moving a VM from one host to another. To better understand what all the options are, let's start the process and see what is available. To initiate the migration process, open Hyper-V Manager, right-click on a VM and select Move.

In the Move Wizard, click on Next >. On the next screen, you have to select the option that you want to use, as shown in this screenshot:

The first option will migrate the VM from one host to another. The second option will migrate the VM storage from one location to another without changing the VM host. Since there are multiple suboptions on each option here, we will divide this topic into two sections.

Move the virtual machine

The first option, as explained, will move the VM from one host to another. After selecting this option, click on Next >, as shown in the following screenshot:

Type the name of the host you want to move your VM onto in the Name textbox, and click on Next >. In the next step, you will...