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Implementing live migration

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Implementing live migration

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- [Narrator] A virtual machine is always running on a Hyper-V host, but sometimes you may need to move the virtual machine from one host to another. It could be for maintenance reasons or maybe it's that you bought a new server to act as your host and you're going to decommission an old one. It could be storage related issues. There's a lot of reasons that you might want to move a virtual machine over to another host. The trick of it is trying to figure out how you would do it without having to take the virtual machine offline. Right, 'cause your users are connected to it and are trying to use it. Well, this is where something called live migration comes into play. To demonstrate live migration I am on a Windows server 2016 computer here that has the Hyper V role installed. In the server manager let's go up to the tools menu and select Hyper-V Manager. Here in the Hyper-V Manager I want to show you that we are connected to host one, that is the server that I'm currently connected to…

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