Configuring A Virtual Machine For Live Migration; Figure 14. Storage Section - Dell PowerVault MD32X0 Implementation Manual

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PowerVault™ MD32X0, MD32X0i, and MD36X0i Series of Storage Arrays: Implementing Hyper-V
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Figure 14.
Your VM is now highly available. You can click Live Migrate to move the VM without downtime to
another node. This process lets you balance the load between nodes without affecting your VMs or lets
you move VMs to another node if you need to do maintenance on one node. The Live Migration feature
is new in the Windows Server 2008 Release 2 operating system and is transparent to the VM.

Configuring a Virtual Machine for Live Migration

After you have Hyper-V Cluster running correctly, you can use the Live Migration feature of the
Windows Server 2008 Release 2 operating system for VMs.
The Live Migration feature can be very useful if you need to balance workloads between different
nodes in your cluster, or if you need to shut down one node for maintenance.
To use the Live Migration feature, you must use Cluster-Shared Volumes (CSVs) for your VMs. CSV must
be available for all of the nodes in the cluster.
1. Open the Failover Cluster Manager, and select Cluster Shared Volumes.
2. Click the right pane, and select Add Storage.
3. Select the disk that you want to add.
After you add the drive, the drive appears in the disk column. Make sure that you
remember the path of the drive. In the example, the path is
C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1.
4. Configure a VM using this cluster shared volume.
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