{"id":347,"date":"2008-09-10T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/09\/10\/does-hyper-v-s-lack-of-live-migration-matter.aspx"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T16:36:36","slug":"does-hyper-v-s-lack-of-live-migration-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Does Hyper-V&#039;s Lack Of Live Migration Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (NSDQ:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/tools\/quotes\/index.jhtml?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>) on Monday said Hyper-V&#8217;s oft-delayed Live Migration feature will be part of Windows Server 2008 R2 when it&#8217;s released in 2010. While that might seem like a long time for Microsoft to add a feature that VMware has had since 2004, solution providers aren&#8217;t concerned that Live Migration isn&#8217;t part of the software giant&#8217;s virtualization portfolio.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Live Migration is not important to us at all at this point,&#8221; said Rand Morimoto, president of Convergent Computing, an Oakland, Calif.-based solution provider and Microsoft Gold partner. &#8220;With what Microsoft offers out of the box today, I&#8217;m not sure whether we have a need for Live Migration.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Live migration, an enterprise-class feature included in the VMware and Xen-based virtualization platforms, makes it possible to move running virtual machines from one system to another system. Microsoft says a feature in Hyper-V called Quick Migration, which is almost as fast as live migration, can perform virtual machine migrations in just six seconds.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/210600662?cid=CRNFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/210600662?cid=CRNFeed\">http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/210600662?cid=CRNFeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Monday said Hyper-V&#8217;s oft-delayed Live Migration feature will be part of Windows Server 2008 R2 when it&#8217;s released in 2010. While that might seem like a long time for Microsoft to add a feature that VMware has had since 2004, solution providers aren&#8217;t concerned that Live Migration isn&#8217;t part of the software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}