Live Migration
Since the release of Hyper-V v1 with Windows Server 2008, a highly requested functionality by organizations is the ability to migrate running virtual machines between hosts, with no downtime. VMware’s VMotion has been able to do this for some time. With Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, doing live migrations between hosts was now done natively with Hyper-V for no extra cost. This made it a compelling reason to move to Hyper-V.
Live Migration uses failover clustering. The quorum model used for the cluster depended on the number of Hyper-V nodes in the cluster. In this example, we will use two Hyper-V nodes in a Node and Disk Majority Cluster configuration. There will be one shared storage LUN used as the cluster quorum disk and another ...
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