System Center Virtual Machine Manager; Importance And Use Cases For Vm Migration - Qlogic Fibre Channel NPIV Storage Networking Guide Manual

Machine Manager 2008 R2, helps realize the vision of the dynamic data
center.
Follow this link to learn about Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-r2.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 is a comprehensive,
heterogeneous management solution for the virtualized data center. VMM2008
R2 enables increased physical server utilization, centralized management of
virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by
the administrator and authorized end users.
VMM2008 R2 provides the best solution for leveraging existing IT administrative
skills and processes for managing the virtual and physical environment.
In addition to providing live migration, VMM 2008 R2 also adds functionality to
migrate storage for running VMs, SAN-based migration across clusters,
template-based rapid provisioning, maintenance mode to automate the
evacuation of VMs off hosts, and live migration host compatibility checks.
Follow this link to learn about System Center VMM2008 R2:
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/
default.aspx

Importance and Use Cases for VM Migration

VM migration is the key to successful utilization of virtualization in a data center.
Usage scenarios that rely on migration include:
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High availability
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Load balancing for hosts
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Host maintenance
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Test and development. In this scenario, the VM is tested on a development
host and then migrated to a production host.
Recognizing the importance of VM migration, Hyper-V offers two powerful
options to configure and enable VM migration for enterprise data centers:
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SAN quick migration using NPIV technology
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(NPIV SAN migration)
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Live migration
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
1-Introduction
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