From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage High Availability
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Perform live cluster role migration - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage High Availability
Perform live cluster role migration
- [Voiceover] One of the great features of Failover Cluster Manager is the ability to move a virtual machine from one cluster node to another without any down time. And we can do that right in our Failover Cluster Manager by right clicking on the server that we would like to move. It has to be at least Windows server 2012 or newer. And we'll right click and choose "Move." From here, we're given a couple of options. One is "Live Migration" the other is "Quick Migration." Now, "Quick Migration" is twice as fast as "Live Migration," but it does bring down the virtual machine during the move. "Live migration" allows you to keep the server up during the move. We're also given a couple of other options. One is the "Best Possible Node" or "Select Node." If you have many nodes in your cluster, you may want to choose this to let Windows decide which server node has the most amount of resources that can handle the move. Otherwise, you can choose "Select Node" and pick the node you want. We'll…