Hyper-V | Shared Nothing Live Migration

In this video, we will see how you can move virtual machines between two hyper-v hosts with no shared storage.

This technique is called as "Shared Nothing Live Migration".

Shared Nothing Live Migration allows you to move virtual machines between two hyper-v hosts even if the virtual machines are stored in a non-shared storage such as DAS (Direct Attached Storage) or local storage. With little or no infrastructure other than two hyper-v hosts and with appropriate networking, you can now live migrate virtual machines between hyper-v hosts.

Whether you have a small infrastructure and want to be able to live migrate between a couple of hosts, or you have a large infrastructure but still have the virtual machines stored on direct-attached storage, Shared Nothing Live Migration is one of the new features in Windows Server 2012 that will make your virtualization tasks easier. Remember that it is not a license to get rid of your SAN devices, but is a great (and easy) way to migrate DAS-attached VMs between hosts without any downtime.

[madmerlin]

One of the best I've seen... Very clear and understandable. Good job.

[JoaoMonteiro-mnbb]

Very simple and clear explanation. Thanks.

[JSavitt]

Thanks for doing such a great job on this video...  It was exactly what I was looking.

[serkanyazi]

Thanks for that.  Should be emphasizes, presentation is very understandable language.

[jpf]

Good job! Your explanations are very clear. Subscribed.

[jarves]

I know this is an old video. But can you migrate from say windows hyper-v server 2012 to windows hyper-v server 2019 shared nothing?

[zoltron]

What's the reasoning behind doing the continuous ping